MOTHER TERESA: A Biography

MOTHER TERESA: A Biography Meg Greene GREENWOOD PRESS ...

MOTHER TERESA ...

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Greene, Meg. Mother Teresa : a biography / Meg Greene Malvasi. p. cm.—(Greenw ...

CONTENTS Series Foreword vii Preface ix Introduction xi Timeline: Significant Events in Mother Teresa’s Life xiii Chapter 1 Skop ...

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SERIES FOREWORD In response to high school and public library needs, Greenwood devel- oped this distinguished series of full-len ...

thorough account relates family background and education, traces per- sonal and professional influences, and explores struggles, ...

PREFACE Writing about Mother Teresa can be both a frustrating and challenging exercise. On the surface, she appears almost one-d ...

trary, hers was a life lived on a different principle. She devoted herself to an old-fashioned sense of calling. She worked amon ...

INTRODUCTION Modern popular culture promotes celebrity: people who are well known for being well known. Stirring up controversy ...

nered for her mission, it may also have set her on the slippery slope that is the price of success: Mother Teresa was becoming f ...

TIMELINE: SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN MOTHER TERESA’S LIFE 1900 Nikola Bojaxhiu (father) and his bride, Drana (mother), move to Skopje ...

10 September 1946 Inspiration Day; while riding a train, Sister Teresa receives her call to help serve the poorest of the poor. ...

TIMELINE xv 1979 Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1983 Suffers heart attack while visiting in Rome. 1985 Receives ...

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Chapter 1 SKOPJE Located in Macedonia, in a region that was formerly part of Albania, the city of Skopje was a bustling commerci ...

known as Skenderbeg, rallied the Albanian princes and drove the Turks out. For the next 25 years, operating out of a mountain st ...

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