Mother Teresa: A Biography

Islam. Like their counterparts who had earlier converted, these men and women became Muslims not primarily from religious convic ...

try, Albanian delegates met in Vlorë and, on November 28, 1912, issued the Vlorë Proclamation in which they formally declared Al ...

his travels. Then, too, the Bojaxhiu household was often crowded with the visitors who regularly stopped by to talk business or ...

Nikola may have passed on to his children a sense of ethnic identity and nationalist pride; however, it was Drana who nurtured t ...

dition, Drana sent Gonxha to find the parish priest. He was not at home. Growing more desperate and not knowing what to do, Gonx ...

fited from Drana’s care and largess. Six orphan children came to live in the house. Drana continued to impress upon her children ...

not the first to die, she would be called to God in another way. Although at 12 Gonxha believed she had received her life’s call ...

By the late 1920s, Gonxha had grown into an attractive young woman, mature beyond her years. A good student, neat and clean in a ...

formed Albanian army as a Second Lieutenant. When Lazar received the news of his younger sister’s decision to become a nun, he w ...

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Chapter 2 ANSWERING THE CALL As the train pulled away from the Zagreb station on its way to Paris, Gonxha must have thought abou ...

Ward took as her model the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits. Founded in 1539 by Ignatius Loyola, a former soldier turned priest, th ...

THE LORETO SISTERS Recognizing the need for Catholic education in their homeland, Irish church officials invited the IBVM sister ...

The sisters then traveled to the local orphanage near the cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary to meet with church officials and ...

Bengal. Christmas was celebrated aboard the ship with three other Fran- ciscan nuns, also missionaries bound for India. The grou ...

trust and self-surrender, much like a child with a loving parent. In 1927, Pope Pius XI canonized Thérèse Martin who now became ...

ST. MARY’S SCHOOL The school was hidden from the everyday world by high gray walls and tall iron gates. Upon passing through the ...

Yet, she also found solace and comfort through the happiness and grati- tude of her young charges. Merely placing a hand on a di ...

often wore ill-fitting second-hand shoes, which over time would misshape and deform her feet. Yet she never complained, maintain ...

Mother Teresa, the name she would go by for the rest of her life. At the age of 27, her destiny seemed to be fulfilled. At the s ...