The making of a saint: the early life of Mother Teresa

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

5 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

05/22/2009

Category :

Philosophy & literature

Sub category :

Literature

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Summary :

Introduction
Early life
Roman catholicism
A religious vocation
Life as a nun
Conclusion
Bibliography

Abstract

Of all the modern people canonized as saints by the Roman Catholic Church, mother teresa was the most famous. She was widely admired for her dedication and her charity and almost as widely criticized for her doctrinaire approach to religion. This paper will examine her life before she began working with ill and dying people in the ghettoes of Calcutta and founded her religious order. The paper will consider the influences that formed her later life.II. early LifeThe woman who would later become the famous throughout the world as mother
teresa was born as Agnes Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910 in the city of Skopje, which is now the capital of the Republic of Macedonia, a part of the former Yugoslavia. This country is bordered by Serbia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Greece, and Albania. She came to be known as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, with Gonxha meaning flower bud. Biographers disagree on whether that was her middle name or a nickname she was given later in childhood. Her parents were Nikola and Dranafile (Drana) Bojaxhiu, and she had an older brother and sister named Lazar and Aga. The area of Eastern Europe where she was born was a melting pot of ethnic groups that remains a political hot spot today. Both Agnes's parents considered themselves ethnic Albanians, though they came from a part of Yugoslavia that was once part of Serbia