Answer to Question #298786 in History for Nickname

Question

Select a leader and write a three-page biography about the leader (excluding title and reference pages). The biography should consider how the leader required and depended on social science research and social science principles, how concepts from class are related to the leader, how the leader addressed topics related to marginalized groups and the challenges those groups face, and how societal influences shaped the leader. At least three reliable scholarly journal sources must be used.

Answer 1

Mother Teresa founded the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic women's religious organization dedicated to assisting the needy. She was canonized as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016, and is regarded as one of the finest humanitarians of the twentieth century. Mother Teresa, also known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in the Catholic church, was a nun and missionary who dedicated her life to caring for the sick and needy. Mother Teresa, who was born in Macedonia to Albanian parents and taught in India for 17 years, received her "call within a call" in 1946. Her order developed a leper colony, a hospice, and centers for the blind, elderly, and crippled. Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian efforts. In September 1997, she died, and in October 2003, she was beatified. Pope Francis recognized a second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa in December 2015, paving the way for her canonization on September 4, 2016.

Mother Teresa soon put her calling into action by assisting the city's underprivileged. In a derelict building she convinced the local government to lend to her cause, she started an open-air school and constructed a home for the dying indigent. In October 1950, she received canonical sanction for the Missionaries of Charity, a new congregation she created with only a few members—most of whom were former teachers or students at St. Mary's School. The scope of Mother Teresa's humanitarian efforts grew enormously as the size of her congregation grew and money flowed in from all across India and the world. She founded a leper colony, an orphanage, a nursing home, a family clinic, and a series of mobile health clinics in the 1950s and 1960s.

Mother Teresa moved to New York City in 1971 to open her first charity house in the United States, and in the summer of 1982, she secretly journeyed to Beirut, Lebanon, to serve children of both religions, crossing between Christian East Beirut and Muslim West Beirut. Mother Teresa returned to New York in 1985 to speak at the United Nations General Assembly's 40th anniversary. She also opened Gift of Love, a home for HIV/AIDS patients, while she was there.

Mother Teresa began spreading internationally when Pope Paul VI conferred the Decree of Praise on the Missionaries of Charity in February 1965. By the time she died in 1997, the Missionaries of Charity had grown to almost 4,000 members, plus thousands of lay volunteers, with 610 foundations in 123 countries. Mother Teresa won numerous distinctions for her devoted and efficient charity, including the Decree of Praise. She received the Jewel of India, India's highest civilian distinction, as well as the Soviet Union's Gold Medal of the Soviet Peace Committee, which is now defunct. Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work "in providing relief to humanity's suffering."