David Aikman summarizes Mother Teresa’s life in his book Great Souls. He tells of her childhood, her contemplation about sisterhood, and her journey of becoming a known figure for the poor.
Aikman visited Calcutta in 1975 and interview Mother Teresa about her work with the poor. He was allotted a short time in India due to a political crisis that resulted in the censorship of journalists. During his time, Aikman met Mother Teresa. He comments on her appearance, a small woman with a deep fatigue engrained in her face. She wore a white Indian sari with a blue boarder and a wooden cross on her left shoulder. While walking around, Mother Teresa was overrun by children all calling out “Mother” and anxiously awaiting her kind touch.
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She had been working closely in the Church with Fr. Jambrenkovic and learned about her desire to do missionary work. After deliberating and praying, Agnes accepted her desire to work for God. She told her mother, who was not surprised. Agnes decided on the Loreto Sisters because of their missionary work in India.
Agnes’s journey was long and difficult. She travelled to Zagreb, Croatia with her mother and sister to wait for another girl, Kanjc. Together the girls travelled to Paris in 1928 and arrived in Ireland at the Rathfarnham house where they learned English and prayed. The girls left for India in December of 1928 on a ship called the Marcha. The ship stopped in Port Said in Egypt and then arrived in Calcutta, India, the final destination. Here Agnes declared her vows as a novice and became Mother Teresa.
Mother Teresa’s work and learning continued. While improving her English, Mother Teresa was taught Bengali, she prayed and read scripture daily, and taught Indian children at the school in Darjeeling, a city north of Calcutta and at the bottom of the Himalayans. Mother Teresa declared her second vows and was sent to teach in Calcutta in 1931. It was here that Mother Teresa experience the true suffering of the people of
Aikman visited Calcutta in 1975 and interview Mother Teresa about her work with the poor. He was allotted a short time in India due to a political crisis that resulted in the censorship of journalists. During his time, Aikman met Mother Teresa. He comments on her appearance, a small woman with a deep fatigue engrained in her face. She wore a white Indian sari with a blue boarder and a wooden cross on her left shoulder. While walking around, Mother Teresa was overrun by children all calling out “Mother” and anxiously awaiting her kind touch.
According …show more content…
She had been working closely in the Church with Fr. Jambrenkovic and learned about her desire to do missionary work. After deliberating and praying, Agnes accepted her desire to work for God. She told her mother, who was not surprised. Agnes decided on the Loreto Sisters because of their missionary work in India.
Agnes’s journey was long and difficult. She travelled to Zagreb, Croatia with her mother and sister to wait for another girl, Kanjc. Together the girls travelled to Paris in 1928 and arrived in Ireland at the Rathfarnham house where they learned English and prayed. The girls left for India in December of 1928 on a ship called the Marcha. The ship stopped in Port Said in Egypt and then arrived in Calcutta, India, the final destination. Here Agnes declared her vows as a novice and became Mother Teresa.
Mother Teresa’s work and learning continued. While improving her English, Mother Teresa was taught Bengali, she prayed and read scripture daily, and taught Indian children at the school in Darjeeling, a city north of Calcutta and at the bottom of the Himalayans. Mother Teresa declared her second vows and was sent to teach in Calcutta in 1931. It was here that Mother Teresa experience the true suffering of the people of