Mother Teresa Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8w81qOc5nU&feature=related

After My Death - Miracle and Beatification

2002, the vatican recognised a miracle - the healing of a tumor in the abdomen of an Indian Woman, Monica Besra, following the application of a locket containing Mother Teresa's picture. Monica said that a beam of light emanated from the picture and cured the cancerous tumour - A MIRACLE! I was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 19 October 2003 and given the title BLESSED TERESA OF CALCUTTA

My Recognitions and Awards

1962 - Awarded Padma Shri in by Indian Government.
1972 - The Jawaharlal Nehru for International Understanding
1980 - The Bharat Ratna (India's highest civilian award)
1962 - Philippines- based Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding given for work in South and East Asia.
1969 - Documentary Something Beautiful for God created, film and book about my life
1971 - Pope John XXIII Peace Prize
1976 - Pacem in Terris Award
1982 - Order of Australia
1983 - Order of Merit from US and UK
1994 - Albania my homeland granted me the Golden Homour of The Nation
1979 - Nobel Peace Prize

My Declining Health and Death

Suffered a heart attack in Rome in 1983, while visiting Pope John Paul II. Second attack in 1989 and got an artificial pacemaker. In 1991, after a battle with pneumonia while in Mexico, suffered further heart problems. In 1996, fell and broke my collar bone. In August suffered from malaria and failure of left heart ventricle. I had heart surgery but my health was declining. On 13 March 1997, I stepped down from head of the Missionaries of Charity and died on 5th September 1997.

International Charity

1982 at height of seige of Beirut, I rescued 37 children trapped in afront line hospital by brokering a temporary cease-fire between the Israeli and Palestinian guerrillas. Accompanied by the Red Cross we traveled through the war zone to the devastated hospital to evacuate the young patients.

I traveled to assist and minster to the hungry in Ethiopia, radiation victims at Chernobyl, and earthquake victims in Armenia.

Serving the poorest the poor we opened the 1st home in the US in the South Bronx, New York and by 1984 the order operated 19 establishments throughout the country.



By 1996 we operated 517 missions in more than 100 countries.

The Missionaries Of Charity Brothers founded in 1963

In answer to the many requests from priests to offer help, I began the corpus christi movement for priests and combined my work with the resources of the ministerial priesthood. By 2007 the missionaries of charity numbered approx. 450 brothers and 5,000 nuns worldwide, operating in 600 missions, schools and shelters in 120 countries.

The Missionaries Work Expandes Internationally

The first homes outside India opened in Venezuela in 1965 with five sisters. Others followed in Rome, Tanzania and Austria in 1968; during the 1970s the order opened houses and foundations in dozens of countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and the United States.