Food was never far from Mother Teresa’s mind or, more accurately, food’s absence. When she was young her mother told her never to eat without sharing, and feeding others became a core part of her mission, for which she will be canonised this week.
What field is Mother Teresa?
In India she received a second call from God: to help the poor while living among them. She founded a new sisterhood, Missionaries of Charity. Mother Teresa and her helpers built homes for orphans, nursing homes for lepers and hospices for the terminally ill in Calcutta.
What is Mother Teresa’s career?
Nun and missionary Mother Teresa, known in the Catholic church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, devoted her life to caring for the sick and poor. Born in Macedonia to parents of Albanian-descent and having taught in India for 17 years, Mother Teresa experienced her “call within a call” in 1946.