Mother Teresa (1910 to 1997)

On September 10, 1946, Teresa said she had a "call above the vocation" that class changed her life. It started when Teresa traveled to Loreto Monastery in Darjeeling for her annual train retreat. At that time, he heard a call from Jesus Christ. Christ told him to leave his teaching position and focus on working in Kolkata to help the poor and sick. That is an order. Not doing it means I renounce my faith," said Teresa at the time. 

She began his missionary duties in 1948, stripping off his monastic clothes, and wearing a white Shari cloth with a blue border. Teresa applied as an Indian citizen, and took medical courses at Holy Family Hospital. He founded a school in Motijhil before she started taking care of the poor and sick. 

In early 1949, she was assisted by a group of young women. On October 7, 1950, she received Vatican permission to establish a congregation called the Missionaries of Charity with former teachers and staff at St Mary's School. In her diary, Teresa wrote that in her first year she had a hard time because she received no income at all. She had to beg for food and medical supplies. Often, she was tempted to return to the comfortable monastic life. However, after seeing the lives of the poor, she admitted that he was grateful to God, and was increasingly determined to carry out her service. Her action began to receive attention from the Indian government and began to receive recognition and assistance from all over the country. This assistance enabled her to develop the congregation. 

In 1950-1960, she established leprosy centers, orphanages, childcare facilities, and health clinics. In 1963, the Missionaries of Charity Brothers were founded, while the Missionaries of Charity Sisters 13 years later. In 1971, Teresa visited New York, United States (US), to open a foundation based there.

Fluent in five languages; Bengali, Albanian, Serbian, English and Hindi, he began traveling around the world on humanitarian missions. In 1982 during the Siege of Beirut, Teresa rescued 37 children trapped in hospital by seeking a ceasefire between Israelis and Palestinians. He visited Armenia during the 1988 earthquake, helped famine Ethiopian, Ukrainian Chernobyl radiation victim, and returned to his hometown in Albania. Until 1996, Mother Teresa operated 517 missions in 100 countries. Starting from 12, the Missionaries of Charity have grown to the thousands.

Mother Teresa had a heart attack while visiting Pope John Paul II in Rome, Italy, in 1983. Constructed by the same disease six years later, she received an artificial pacemaker. In 1991, he caught pneumonia in Mexico. Mother Teresa had offered to resign as Chair of the Missionaries of Charity. However, the sisters wanted him to stay. April 1996, he fell and suffered a broken collarbone. Four months later, it was his turn for malaria and heart failure. March 13, 1997, Mother Teresa actually resigned as Chair of the Missionaries of Charity, and died on September 5, 1997. Her body was buried in St Thomas, Kolkata, for a week before being buried. He received a state funeral as a token of gratitude for his services to the poor.

After Mother Teresa died, the Pope began the process of beatification, and Brian Kolodiejchuk was installed as a postulator by the Diocese of Kolkata. He started the process of proving Teresa's heroic actions by collecting 76 documents 35,000 pages thick containing the testimonies of 113 people who were asked to answer 263 questions. Then in the process of canonization, the Catholic Church needed to document the miracles that occurred after praying through the saint's candidate. In 2002, the Vatican acknowledged a miracle after an Indian woman named Monica Besra claimed to have recovered from a tumor. While waiting in line at a booth displaying a photo of Mother Teresa, Besra admitted that there was light coming out of the photo, and healed her tumor. During the period of beatification and canonization, the Vatican studied both published and unpublished criticisms. On October 19, 2003, Mother Teresa was beatified and became known as Beato, or means the Blessed One. December 17, 2015, Pope Francis confirmed the second miracle that happened to a Brazilian man with a brain tumor in 2005. Pope Francis conferred the title Saint Teresa on September 4, 2016 at St. Peter's Basilica, attended by 15 government delegates and 1,500 homeless across Italy.