Her name has become a synonym of mercy. After
her death, she was canonized.
But few people know that before Mother Teresa’s
death, an exorcism rite – that is, the expulsion
of the devil –was performed on her.
The Dead Were Humans Too
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu was born on August
26, 1910, in the Albanian city of Skopje [with
a substantial Albanian community]. Her family
was moderately wealthy, since the head of
the family was a successful businessman. However
this carefree life came to an abrupt end with
her father’s tragic death when the girl
was nine years old. In order for the family
to make both ends meet, Anjezë’s mom had
to take on any job.
Until the age of 12, the girl was a completely
ordinary child, and then, on one occasion,
during a pilgrimage to Montenegro, she suddenly
heard the Voice of God and felt a desire to
serve Him! The second time it happened after
leaving school. This time, the Voice, as if,
was more specific on the purpose of his communication
with her. He told Anjezë to go to India and
help the poor.
To get to India, she had to join a missionary
congregation in Dublin - there was simply
no other way. There she joined the monastic
order of the Irish Sisters of Loreto. And,
finally, she managed to fulfill the task set
by the Voice - in 1929 she was already in
India, in the town of Darjeeling. In 1931
she became a member of the congregation and
started teaching at St. Mary's School for
Girls.
In 1937, she took a monastic vow and chose
the name Mother Teresa, in honor of the famous
Carmelite nun Teresa of Lisieux, who was canonized
in 1927 for her kindness and mercy.
This is where the story of Anjezë Bojaxhiu
ends and the story of Mother Teresa begins.
In Darjeeling, the young nun was sent to the
hospital to care for the sick. Few years later
she was appointed director of the Bengali
department at St. Anne's school. Very close
to the educational institution were nightmarish
slums. Every day the nun came across the horrors
of poverty, hunger and death on the streets.
But she didn't even know whom to turn to for
help. The question was resolved unexpectedly,
although in her case it was rather expected.
In 1946, during a pilgrimage, Mother Teresa
heard the Voice again. As before, he gave
her pretty clear instructions. The Voice told
her to leave the monastery and live among
the poor.
Paradoxically, both the abbess of the monastery,
to whom Mother Teresa turned, and the Archbishop
of Calcutta, considered her desire to leave
the moderately comfortable life in the monastery
in order to live on the street among the poor
and sick as completely absurd. Thus she got
the permission to leave the order and went
on to fulfill the mission destined for her
from above. She left for Calcutta.
Next you will find out why Mother Teresa was
accused of taking money from drug lords, financial
scammers and political dictators.
The poverty that reigned in India at that
time could frustrate anyone, but not Mother
Teresa, who came here to fight it. Once on
the street she saw rats huddled around a woman's
body. After driving them away, Mother Teresa
was surprised to find that the woman whose
flesh was being eaten by the rats was still
alive!
Someone else in her stead would have fainted
at the sight, but she lifted the unfortunate
woman and took her to the hospital. Similar
cases were all too frequent and a fundamental
solution to the problem was needed.
Mother Teresa requested for and was granted
by the city authorities a room where the disadvantaged
could be provided with at least a minimum
of subsistance. This is how the world's first
home for the dying appeared. Later, such houses
became known as hospices.
Then came another shock – this time with
the real dead – that proved that she was
on the right track.
It turned out that there was a whole business
of exporting human bones from India. This
"product" - the unclaimed dead bodies lying
on the streets - was widely used in the world
for anatomical purposes.
But Mother Teresa believed that the dead should
be treated humanely. “Obedience, mercy,
poverty, service to the poorest of the poor”
- these were not just the words she wrote
in the Charter of the Monastic Congregation
the Missionaries of Charity. When she created
it in 1950, she knew that her organization
would follow this principle. And so it was
- 54,000 people (in the first 40 years alone)
were picked up by the nuns of the congregation
from the streets of Calcutta and sent to hospices.
Above all Mother Teresa had warmest feelings
towards the street children, for whom the
congregation opened the Nirmala Shishu Bhavan
orphanage in 1955.
Abadoned babies still alive were dragged out
of garbage bins, from heaps of rot and gutters.
They were found in the most unthinkable places
to be transferred to Mother Teresa’s orphanage.
Mother Teresa did not accept abortions. “Give
them to me if you don’t want to raise them
yourself. I have enough love for all the rejected
children." – This is what she would say
when meeting with patients in women's hospitals
in Bosnia, with women who became pregnant
as a result of rape and therefore did not
want such children. Meanwhile, during the
war, there were lots of them.
Another point of criticism was Mother Teresa’s
treatment of huge donations to the congregation's
fund in the "Money Doesn't Smell" style.
She was being persuaded not to take "dirty"
and "bloody" money, to which she would reply:
"They donated this money from the bottom of
their hearts, not to me, but to the business
I am doing."
However, no matter who and no matter how hard
they tried to denigrate her, for millions
of people, Mother Teresa is the standard of
mercy and righteousness. Probably, there was
no corner on earth where she would have not
gone if a calamity unfolded there. She was
in Palestinian refugee camps as well as in
Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1982, during the
siege of Beirut, she persuaded Israelis and
Palestinians to stop fighting in order to
save 37 children trapped in a front-line hospital.
Mother Teresa visited Ethiopia during a drought,
Guatemala after an earthquake, the USSR after
the Chernobyl accident, she helped the victims
of the earthquake in Spitak (Armenia) and
many, many other victims of various disasters.
In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize. She deposited the entire amount
– 800 thousand Norwegian kroner – into
the fund's account, which was quite expected
of her. What was unexpected, almost shocking,
was that she refused to attend the banquet,
explaining that she could not indulge in gluttony
when people in the world are dying of hunger.
She never violated her own charter, or rather,
code of honor.
The life of this amazing woman was came to
an end on September 5, 1997 in India, while
on September 4, 2016, the Catholic nun Mother
Teresa of Calcutta was, canonized that is
officially became a saint.
As for whether exorcism was performed on Mother
Teresa or not, there is no clear answer. And
it is hardly needed by those thousands of
people whom Mother Teresa helped during her
lifetime and those who still receive help
through hundreds of organizations created
by her congregation and operating in hundreds
of countries around the world!
Do you think that Mother Teresa did the right
thing by taking dirty money for noble purposes?
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