Who was Mother Teresa? / by Jim Gigliotti ; illustrated by David Groff.
Material type: TextSeries: Who was-- ?Publisher: New York, New York, USA : Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 105 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780448482996
- 0448482991
- 9780606367509
- 0606367500
- 9781480675650
- 1480675652
- 9781484453711
- 1484453719
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Biography | Teresa G459 | Available | 33111008802700 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Born a humble girl in what is now Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu lived a charitable life. She pledged herself to a religious order at the age of 18 and chose the name Sister Teresa, after the patron saint of missionaries. While teaching in India, where famine and violence had devastated the poor, Teresa shed her habit and walked the streets of Calcutta tending to the needs of the destitute. Her charity work soon expanded internationally, and her name remains synonymous with compassion and devotion to the poor.
Presents the life of an Albanian girl, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, who became known as Mother Teresa and spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-105).
Who was Mother Teresa? -- Childhood -- Call to a spiritual life -- Leaving home -- To India -- A long wait -- Into the slums -- Poorest of the poor -- Missionaries of Charity goes global -- Saint among us -- Timelines -- Bibliography.