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were asking our Lady of Fatima to obtain for us the new house

we needed.^13

Finally, a suitable house was found at 54A Lower Circular Road. The

home, which belonged to a former Muslim magistrate, was bought by the

diocese of Calcutta with the understanding that Mother Teresa would

pay back the loan. In February 1953, Mother Teresa and her group moved

into their new residence. In tribute to their founder, the sisters called it

Motherhouse.

NOTES

1. Eileen Egan, Such a Vision of the Street: Mother Teresa—The Spirit and the
   Work(Garden City, N.Y.: Image Books, 1986), p. 43.


2. Egan, Vision,p. 43.


3. Raghu Rai and Navin Chawla, Faith and Compassion: The Life and Work of
   Mother Teresa,(Rockport, Mass.: Element, 1999), p. 39.


4. Rai and Chawla, Faith,p. 38.


5. Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography(San
   Francisco: Harper & Row, 1997), p. 38.


6. Rai and Chawla, Faith,p. 40.


7. Rai and Chawla, Faith,p. 40.


8. Egan, Vision,p. 48.


9. Rai and Chawla, Faith,p. 42.


10. Edward Le Joly, Mother Teresa of Calcutta: A Biography(San Francisco:
    Harper & Row, 1977), p. 28.


11. Mother Teresa with Jose Luis Gonzàles-Balado, Mother Teresa: In My Own
    Words(New York: Gramercy Books, 1996), pp. 24, 30.


12. Spink, Mother Teresa,p. 43.


13. Le Joly, Mother Teresa,p. 30.

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