Aged 18 I joined the sisters of Loreto as a missionary. I initially went to the Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham, Ireland to learn Engilsh, the language the Sisters of Loreto used to teach school children. I then travelled to India in 1929, and began my novitiate in Darjeeling, neer the Himalayan mountains. I took my first religious vows as a nun on 24 May 1931. At that time I chose the name Teresa after Therese de Lisieux, the patron saint missionaries. I took her vows on 14 May 1937, while serving as a teacher at the loreto convent school in eastern Calcutta.
Although I enjoyed teaching at the school, I was increasingly disturbed by the poverty surronding me in Calcutta. The Bengal famine of 1943 brought misery and death to the city and the outbreack of Hindu/Muslim violence in August 1946 plunged the city into despair and horror.
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