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Highlights of Mother Teresa's life
1910 Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu born August 27 in Skopje, in what is now Macedonia, the youngest of three children of an Albanian builder. 1928 Becomes novitiate in Loretto order, which ran mission schools in India, and takes name Sister Teresa. 1929 Arrives in Calcutta to teach at St. Mary's High School. 1937 Takes final vows as a nun. 1946 While riding a train to the mountain town of Darjeeling to recover from suspected tuberculosis, she said she received a calling from God "to serve him among the poorest of the poor." 1947 Permitted to leave her order and moves to Calcutta's slums to set up her first school. 1950 Founds the order of Missionaries of Charity. 1952 Opens Nirmal Hriday, or "Pure Heart," a home for the dying, followed next year by her first orphanage. 1962 Wins her first prize for her humanitarian work: the Padma Shri award for distinguished service. Over the years, she uses the money from such prizes to found dozens of new homes. 1979 Wins Nobel Peace Prize. 1982 Persuades Israelis and Palestinians to stop shooting long enough to rescue 37 retarded children from a hospital in besieged Beirut. 1983 Has a heart attack while in Rome visiting Pope John Paul II. 1985 Awarded Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian award. 1989 Has a second and nearly fatal attack. Doctors implant a pacemaker. 1990 Announces her intention to resign, and a conclave of sisters is called to choose successor. In a secret ballot, Mother Teresa is re-elected with only one dissenting vote -- her own -- and withdraws request to step down. 1991 Suffers pneumonia in Tijuana, Mexico, leading to congestive heart failure, and is hospitalized in La Jolla, California. 1993 Breaks three ribs in fall in May in Rome; hospitalized for malaria in August in New Delhi; undergoes surgery to clear blocked blood vessel in Calcutta in September. 1996 November 16, receives honorary U.S. citizenship. 1996 Falls and breaks collarbone in April; suffers malarial fever and failure of the left heart ventricle in August; treated for a chest infection and recurring heart problems in September. Readmitted to hospital with chest pains and breathing problems November 22. 1997 March 13, steps down as head of her order.
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