I fall asleep and feel the beauty of life; I wake up and feel the responsibility of life.

——Mother Teresa (Madre. Teresa)

On September 5, 1997, the famous philanthropist Mother Teresa, known as the mother of the poor in the world, died of a heart attack. He died suddenly of illness at the age of 87.

This is how she embarked on the missionary path

Teresa’s original name was Agnes Gongsha Bojeshu. She was born into a wealthy Albanian family in Skopje, Macedonia. , that day was August 27, 1910. In the year she graduated from high school, one day the priest from the diocese came to her home to raise funds for the nuns from Rowlett Abbey to go to Calcutta, India to preach. By the way, she told Agnes about the various situations of the nuns preaching in India. This long conversation with the priest ignited Theresa's long-held idea: "I must go to India and do something for the poor there." Soon, Agnes was sent to the Bengal Mission in India. Rowlett Monastery (Calcutta). That year, she had just turned 18 years old.

Later, Agnes left the convent and went to a large hospital run by the American Medical Missionary Society in Calcutta. She spent half a year learning basic health knowledge that should have taken two years to master. After returning to Calcutta, the first thing Theresa did was to take off her blue nun's robe and put on a white coarse cotton sari commonly worn by common Indian women. In order to always remember her responsibilities, she specially embroidered a cross on the shoulder of the sari, and sewn three strips of blue cloth to the edge of the cheap sari.

The sari designed by Teresa later became the nuns’ favorite and most commonly worn uniform. Theresa wore such a unique nun's uniform and began her charity career in Calcutta's most notorious slum. From then on, wherever there were poor people in the streets of Calcutta, which was then known as the Nightmare City, people would see Theresa wearing a white sari appearing beside them.

Lighting a beacon of hope for people in darkness. At first, Teresa and the nuns' good deeds of helping the poor, adopting abandoned babies and establishing "children's homes" were not widely known. After the establishment of "hospice homes" for the poor and sick and some dying people who could only live for a few hours was widely reported, people all over the world knew that in India, there is a special community that respects all poor people unconditionally. Sister Risa.

Teresa came up with the idea of ??creating a "hospice" by accident.

That day Theresa went to Patna Hospital for a meeting. When passing by the square of the station, she saw an old woman struggling in pain and moaning in a trash can. She hurriedly approached and found that the old woman was covered with ants and mice. She had a hole in her head bitten by a mouse, and the wound was covered with flies and maggots. Teresa desperately picked up the old woman and went straight to the hospital.

Although Theresa later rescued the old woman, this incident shocked her greatly. She thought of the people pushing carts to collect the poor people on the streets every morning like garbage. Theresa began to travel frequently to various departments in Calcutta.

With the help of the city health department, Teresa finally found the perfect place for her "hospice" at the Kali Temple, famous for its worship of the Hindu goddess Kali. In less than half a day, the nuns sent dozens of the poorest and most miserable patients. Among them, an old man passed away the same night he moved in. Before he died, the old man took Theresa's hand and whispered in Bengali: "I lived like a dog all my life, and now I die like a human. Thank you, nun."

The "Hospice" founded by Theresa was officially established in August 1952. A sign reading "Ninumaru Hilde" was hung at the door, which means "House of Pure Hearts" in Bengali. So far, the "Missionaries of Charity" founded by Teresa has established more than 500 charitable institutions and places in more than 100 countries, and millions of people have received help from them.

Teresa's philanthropic work has had a great impact around the world. She has won numerous awards in her life and has spread to dozens of countries.

When she completed her 87-year-old life on September 5, 1997, the Indian government specially held a state funeral for her that only the president and prime minister of India are qualified to hold.