Mother Teresa

We tend to flatten Mother Teresa into pure sainthood, but I find it more moving to remember her as one woman from Skopje who chose Calcutta's streets and never left. The Nobel Peace Prize, the Bharat Ratna, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, none of those were the point. The point was holding the hand of the dying, day after day, for decades. That kind of unglamorous endurance is harder than any grand gesture. I cannot pretend to match it, and I am wary of easy reverence, yet her quiet persistence remains a standard I cannot look away from.

Name (English)

Mother Teresa

Name (Japanese)

マザー・テレサ

Reading

まざー・てれさ

Born

August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dog

Origin

Skopje, North Macedonia

Occupation

religious sister / missionary / nun / founder of Catholic religious community / Christian nun

Awards & achievements

• 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Award
• 1969 Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding
• 1976 Pacem in Terris Award
• 1978 Balzan Prize
• 1979 Nobel Peace Prize
• 1980 Bharat Ratna
• 1982 Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia
• 1985 Presidential Medal of Freedom

• Official sitehttps://motherteresa.org
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%20Teresa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B5
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30547

Tags

• religious sister
• missionary
• nun

Last updated

2026-06-16

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