Vocation
What did Theresa sneak out of the convent to do?
Give the needy people food
What are nuns who live in convents in which they can not leave called?
Cloistered Nuns
What award did Mother Theresa receive in 1979?
Nobel Peace Prize
What happened to India in 1947?
India gained its Independence
In order to become a saint how many miracles need to be verified?
Two
Age 12
Return to the public upon release of vows is called what?
Exclaustration
How many years did Theresa not see her mother and sister?
28 years
Why did the riot start outside Theresa's hospice?
Hindus were mad she was using the Hindu temple
What was the first miracle?
Indian woman was healed (tumor in her abdomen) Had a locket of Mother Theresa and prayed to her.
Theresa became an icon of what to people of all religions?
Compassion
What was the new congregation she started called?
Missionaries of Charity
True or False: Theresa tried diverting all attention of her work
True
Mother General does not approve of Theresa's working with her as nuns. She believed what?
Theresa had badly influenced them.
What was the 2nd miracle
Healing of a Brazilian man with multiple brain tumors in 2008.
What was the missionaires of charity vows
Chastity, Obedience, Wholehearted
What is the position held by a woman in charge of a convent of women.
Mother Superior/General
What was Mother Theresa's first name when she was born?
Agnes
What happened when Theresa tries to stop a boy from eating dirty food from the ground?
The parents get mad and think she is trying to convert him.
Why did she ask for the letters to be destroyed?
She feared people will think more of her and less of Jesus.
What does Theresa believe about those who are severely ill?
Those who are dying should be cared for as the greatest suffering is to be left alone.
What is Secularization?
To be removed from an order; stop being a nun.
When and how did Theresa die?
1997 and of old age
Theresa entered the slums with only five rupees, true or false?
True
How many nuns are in the missionaries of charity today?
4,000 worldwide