Mother Teresa 109th Birth Anniversary

Mother Teresa 109 birth anniversary
Question: In which year did Mother Teresa came to India?
(a) 1927
(b) 1928
(c) 1929
(d) 1930
Answer: (c)
Related facts:
  • On 26th August, 2019, s Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata paid tribute to its founder Mother Teresa on her 109th birth anniversary.
  • She left her home in 1928 when she was mere 18 and devoted most part of life working for poor and downtrodden. She arrived India in 1929.
  • In 1950, Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation.
  • Mother Teresa rescued 37 children trapped in a front line hospital by brokering a temporary cease-fire between Israel and Palestine.
  •  Accompanied by Red Cross workers, she traveled through the war zone to the destroyed hospital to evacuate the young patients.
  • Mother Teresa received more than 120 honours and awards during her lifetime including the Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize in 1962 and Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
  • She worked for orphans, AIDS patients, refugees, blind, disabled, alcoholics, poor, homeless, victims of floods and epidemics and famine.
  • Mother Teresa was canonized at a ceremony on 4th September, 2016 in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican City.

Links:

https://www.news18.com/news/india/mother-teresa-109th-birth-anniversary-facts-about-the-founder-of-missionaries-of-charity-2284043.html

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/nuns-pay-tribute-to-mother-teresa-on-her-109th-birth-anniversary-2090348