Mother Teresa: A Biography

SPECIFICATION: Publisher : Jaico Publishing House By :Meg Greene (Author) Binding : Paperback Language : English   Edition : 2012 Pages :  170 pages Size : : 20 x 14 x 4 cm ISBN-10 :  8184953577 ISBN-13 :  978-8184953572 DESCRIPTION: Mother Teresa transcended her ordinariness with a belief that she was called to her life's work and she used the unsought fame it brought her, to further her causes. In this new biography, students will follow Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu from her humble Albanian birth to worldwide celebrity as Mother Teresa. The nun who attended to the dying and diseased in Calcutta, India and established her Missionaries of Charity around the world had to prove to the hierarchy in the patriarchal Catholic system, even in the Vatican, that she was capable of handling each project she proposed. With her vision to live and work among the 'poorest of the poor' was founded a new order that tended to society's outcasts. This narrative chronicles the expansion and success of Mot