Mother of The Century (2001) and Mother Teresa (2002) are short documentary films, about the life and work of Mother Teresa among the poor of India, directed by Amar Kumar Bhattacharya.
Mother Teresa is a Roman Catholic saint who was a Nobel laureate known for her missionary work with the poor in India. She founded the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to the poor, and she was canonized as a saint in 2016.
On , Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order, “The Missionaries of Charity”, whose primary task was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after.
(1910-1997) Who Was Mother Teresa? Nun and missionary Mother Teresa, known in the Catholic church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, devoted her life to caring for the sick and poor.
Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun and founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, an organization that serves the poorest of the world’s population.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta is an icon of selfless service to the poorest of the poor, the downtrodden, and those on the margins of society; with her love and compassion, she touched millions of lives during her lifetime and continues to do so through the untiring service of the Missionaries of Charity, the religious family she founded.
Minute in body, giant in faith, Mother Teresa was born to an Albanian family in Skopje on , and is given the name Agnes Gonxha. As a child, she is taught by her parents to live praising the Lord and helping the most needy.