Nun to Saint: Mother Teresa timeline

Landmark events in the life of Mother Teresa who was declared a saint by Pope Francis at the Vatican on Sunday:

* 1910: Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, present - day Macedonia, on August 26; Baptised on August 27
* 1922 - 1923: At age 12, feels first call to religious life
* 1928: Leaves home on Sep 25 to become a Roman Catholic Loreto nun and begins novitiate training in Dublin.
Takes the name Sister Teresa
* 1929: Arrives in Kolkata, becomes a teacher at St Mary's School
* 1931: Takes her first vows as a nun
* 1937: Takes final vows as a nun, becomes known as Mother Teresa
* 1946: On a train to Darjeeling on Sep 10, receives "the call within the call" to serve the poor
* 1948: Starts teaching poor children, opens her first slum school; Shifts to 14, Creek Lane
* 1950: Founds the Missionaries of Charity on Oct 7 with 12 sisters after getting the green signal from the Vatican
* 1951: Receives Indian Citizenship
* 1952: Opens first home for dying at Kalighat in South Kolkata.
Names it Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart)
* 1953: Leaves Creek Lane and shifts to a two - storeyed building on Lower Circular Road; it's now called Mother House, the global headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity
* 1957: Begins her work with lepers for which her Order becomes well known around the world
* 1962: Receives Padma Shri from the President for her humanitarian work
* 1963: Founds Missionaries of Charity, Brothers
* 1965: Catholic Church grants permission for setting up missions outside India; the first opens that year in Venezuela
* 1971: Receives Pope John XXIII Peace Prize and uses money to build a leper colony
* 1976: Founds Missionaries of Charity, Contemplative Sisters
* 1979: Receives Nobel Peace Prize for work with the destitute and dying
* 1980: Conferred India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna
* 1982: Rescues 37 mentally disabled children from a hospital in besieged Beirut
* 1983: Visits Pope John Paul II.

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