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Born
in Albania -
Left Home
At age 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto at Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham, Ireland, to learn English with the view of becoming a missionary -
Arrived to India
Began her novitiate in Darjeeling, in the lower Himalayas,[24] where she learnt Bengali and taught at St. Teresa's School near her convent -
Religious vows
Teresa took her first religious vows. She choose to be named the patron saint of missionaries -
Solemn vows
Teresa took her solemn vows while she was a teacher at the Loreto convent school in Entally, eastern Calcutta. -
Missionaries of Charity
a Roman Catholic religious congregation, which manages homes for people dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis -
Rescued Children
at the height of the Siege of Beirut, Teresa rescued 37 children trapped in a front-line hospital by brokering a temporary cease-fire between the Israeli army and Palestinian guerrillas. -
Death
India, Calcuta
