who was Mother Teresa? Was she considered a Saint?

Answer 1

Far from it! All the money she recieved in donations sat in the bank. She said she would not pay for anything people should give her a house etc for free. Her attitude was the world owed her something. She told seriously ill patients who were in a lot of pain that by suffering they were close to God!

So would you call someone that took donations but refused to build hospitals and help the poor with it a saint? Would you call someone that wanted people to suffer a saint?

Look up in google the scandal about her and you will be in for a major shock. If anything after reading what she was really like, you will think she was pure evil.

Answer 2

Mother Teresa (born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997) was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. Following her death she was beatified (a step toward sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church) by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.

Answer 3

Mother Teresa (born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997) was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. For over forty years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying in Kolkata (Calcutta), India.

As the Missionaries of Charity grew under Mother Teresa's leadership, they expanded their ministry to other countries. By the 1970s she had become internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless, due in part to a documentary, and book, Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge. Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.[2][3]

Following Mother Teresa's death in 1997, the Holy See began the process of beatification, the second step towards possible canonization. This process requires the documentation of a miracle performed from the intercession of Mother Teresa. In 2002, the Vatican recognized as a miracle the healing of a tumor in the abdomen of an Indian woman, Monica Besra, following the application of a locket containing Mother Teresa's picture. Monica Besra said that a beam of light emanated from the picture, curing the cancerous tumor. Some of Besra's medical staff and, initially, Besra's husband insist that conventional medical treatment eradicated the tumor.[65] Unless dispensed by the Pope, a second miracle is required for her to proceed to canonization.

Yes, she is a saint.

Answer 4

Mother Teresa, Religious Figure / Humanitarian

Born: 27 August 1910
Birthplace: Skopje, Macedonia
Died: 5 September 1997
Best Known As: Humanitarian nun of Calcutta, called "The Saint of the Gutters"

Name at birth: Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu

Mother Teresa grew famous for humbly ministering to lepers, the homeless and the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. In 1928 Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu joined the Sisters of Our Lady of Lareto, a Catholic order that did charity work in India. She took the name Sister Teresa and for 17 years taught school in the country. In 1950 she founded the Missionaries of Charity, a new order devoted to helping the sick and poor; the order grew to include branches in more than 100 cities around the world, and Mother Teresa became a worldwide symbol of charity, meeting with Princess Diana and many other public figures. In 1979 Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, and in 1985 she was awarded the Medal of Freedom from the United States.


She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 19 October 2003, placing her one step from sainthood in the Catholic faith; after beatification she became known as the Blessed Mother Teresa of Kolkata... Though her parents were ethnic Albanians, Mother Teresa was born in what is now Macedonia and what was then part of the Ottoman Empire. Some sources give her date of birth as August 26th, not August 27th.

Answer 5

All Christians are saints. Mother Teresa was a fine example of one of them. Check her out. Read about her. Lots of people admired her. She was a Missionary Catholic nun who ran 3 different homes in India (Calcutta). I don't remember the names of all of them. But one was for the orphan children. There was also one for people who had leprosy and Aids.

Answer 6

She was an Albanian nun, who served in maritime Canada.
From there she started a mission to feed children in Haiti.
Later she founded her own order in Calcutta India.
They ministered to those dieing on the streets.
Later she founded orphanages for abandoned children.
She is now well on her way to being recognized as a Saint.

Answer 7

Not yet. The Vatican is still deciding on the Sainthood for her. They can take years and years to decide.
She was a nun that dedicated her whole life to the sick. poverty stricken, suffering people of the world, mostly in Calcutta. She was self giving, deprived herself to provide for these people, risked her life and everything to take care of the poorest weakest of the earth, she was selfless and giving as long as she lived. Not Sainthood yet, being considered.

Answer 8

She worked in Calcutta and was a very unselfish women, and yes she is considered a Saint. Maybe try Googling her name and see what you come up with?

Answer 9

She is not a saint yet. There is a priest nominating her for sainthood. I have a small hunch she will eventually become one.

Answer 10

A good woman who took care of the poor in India....Only way she can become a saint is if she had accepted Jesus as her Savior....the Pope does not have the authority to make anyone a saint..only God has that authority.....the Pope is not God's mouthpiece on Earth...he is a mere man...just like the rest of us...you won't find me kissing his ring...the only one I will bow to is Jesus Christ,,who is Lord of all..