Mother Teresa: "Angel of Mercy"

Celebrating the Mother
In June 1985, Mother Teresa was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Reagan, who said of her: "Some people, some very few people are, in the truest sense, citizens of the world; Mother Teresa is."

An incident in 1946 changed Mother Teresa's life forever. After falling ill with suspected tuberculosis she was sent to the hill town of Darjeeling to recover. It was while travelling in the train she heard the call to give up all and follow God to the slums to serve him among the poorest of the poor. Two years later, Pope Pius XII granted permission for her to leave her order.
After 10 years helping the destitute in the slums of Calcutta, where 100,000 were homeless, she expanded by opening a hospice in the grounds of a Hindu temple in Kalighat, followed by a home for abandoned children and a refuge for lepers.
Her work spread throughout India, and her fame grew with it. In 1970, the journalist Malcolm Muggeridge made a film that brought her to the attention of the West.
Muggeridge, an agnostic, was inspired to convert to the Catholic faith. "Words cannot convey how beholden I am to her," he wrote.


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