12seconds for Peace presents another video in our series 'Leaders & Teachers for Peace'. This time with the inspiring words of Mother Teresa.
Mother Teresa, an Albanian Catholic nun, was born Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in 1910 in Üsküb of the Ottoman Empire. At the age of 12 she had already decided that she wished to commit herself to her religious calling and joined the sisters of Loreto as a missionary at the age of 18; never again to see her family.
In 1950 she founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, and for over 45 years did all that she could to alleviate the suffering of the poor, the sick, orphaned and dying. The Missionaries of Charity's expansion took it throughout the rest of India and then on to the rest of the world.
In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Noble Peace Prize and by the time of her death in 1997, the Missionaries of Charity had 610 missions in 123 countries.
Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.
Her most profound and insightful comment relating to the desire for peace in the world came when she was invited to go on an anti-war march. She said: "I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there."
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