(1910–1997)
Mother Teresa was the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to helping the poor. Considered one of the 20th Century's greatest humanitarians, she was canonized as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016.
特蕾莎修女是仁爱传教修女会的创始人，仁爱传教修女会是一个致力于帮助穷人的罗马天主教妇女会。她被认为是20世纪最伟大的人道主义者之一，2016年被封为加尔各答的圣特雷莎。
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. Born in Macedonia to parents of Albanian-descent and having taught in India for 17 years, Mother Teresa experienced her "call within a call" in 1946. Her order established a hospice; centers for the blind, aged and disabled; and a leper colony.
修女和传教士特蕾莎修女，在天主教会被称为加尔各答的圣特蕾莎，她一生致力于照顾病人和穷人。特蕾莎修女出生在马其顿，父母是阿尔巴尼亚裔，在印度教书17年，1946年她经历了一次“呼唤中的呼唤”。她的倡议建立了一个临终关怀医院；为盲人、老年人和残疾人设立了服务中心；并建立了一个麻风病人聚居地。
In 1979, Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work. She died in September 1997 and was beatified in October 2003. In December 2015, Pope Francis recognized a second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa, clearing the way for her to be canonized on September 4, 2016.
1979年，特蕾莎修女因其人道主义工作获得诺贝尔和平奖。她于一九九七年九月去世，并于二零零三年十月受行宣福礼。2015年12月，教皇方济各承认了特蕾莎修女带来的第二个奇迹，为她在2016年9月4日被封为圣徒扫清了道路。
Mother Teresa’s Family and Young Life 特蕾莎修女的家庭和早年生活
Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, the current capital of the Republic of Macedonia. The following day, she was baptized as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu.
Mother Teresa’s parents, Nikola and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, were of Albanian descent; her father was an entrepreneur who worked as a construction contractor and a trader of medicines and other goods. The Bojaxhius were a devoutly Catholic family, and Nikola was deeply involved in the local church as well as in city politics as a vocal proponent of Albanian independence.
特蕾莎修女的父母尼古拉和德拉纳菲勒·博贾希乌是阿尔巴尼亚裔；她的父亲是一名企业家，是从事建筑承包和医药及其他商品的商人。这个家庭是一个虔诚的天主教家庭，尼古拉作为阿尔巴尼亚独立的声援者，密切参与当地教会和城市的政治活动。
In 1919, when Mother Teresa — then Agnes — was only eight years old, her father suddenly fell ill and died. While the cause of his death remains unknown, many have speculated that political enemies poisoned him.
1919年，当特蕾莎修女——当时的阿格妮丝——只有8岁时，她的父亲突然生病去世。虽然他的死因仍然不明，但许多人猜测是政敌毒害了他。
In the aftermath of her father's death, Agnes became extraordinarily close to her mother, a pious and compassionate woman who instilled in her daughter a deep commitment to charity. Although by no means wealthy, Drana Bojaxhiu extended an open invitation to the city's destitute to dine with her family. "My child, never eat a single mouthful unless you are sharing it with others," she counseled her daughter. When Agnes asked who the people eating with them were, her mother uniformly responded, "Some of them are our relations, but all of them are our people."
父亲去世后，阿格尼丝与母亲变得格外亲近，母亲是一位虔诚而富有同情心的女性，她向女儿传达了对慈善事业的深深承诺。虽然德拉娜·博贾希乌绝非富有，但她还是公开邀请该市穷人与家人共进晚餐。”“我的孩子，除非你和别人分享，否则不要单独吃一口，”她劝女儿说。当阿格尼丝问和他们一起吃饭的人是谁时，她母亲总是回答说：“他们中有些是我们的亲戚，但都是我们的人。”
Education and Nunhood
Agnes attended a convent-run primary school and then a state-run secondary school. As a girl, she sang in the local Sacred Heart choir and was often asked to sing solos. The congregation made an annual pilgrimage to the Church of the Black Madonna in Letnice, and it was on one such trip at the age of 12 that she first felt a calling to religious life. Six years later, in 1928, an 18-year-old Agnes Bojaxhiu decided to become a nun and set off for Ireland to join the Sisters of Loreto in Dublin. It was there that she took the name Sister Mary Teresa after Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.
阿格尼丝就读于一所修道院开办的小学，然后是一所国立中学。小时候，她在当地的圣心合唱团唱歌，经常被要求唱独唱。教友们每年都会去莱特尼斯的黑圣母教堂朝圣，正是在12岁时的一次这样的旅行中，她第一次感受到了宗教生活的呼唤。六年后的1928年，18岁的阿格尼丝·博贾希乌决定成为一名修女，前往爱尔兰加入都柏林的洛雷托姐妹会。就在那里，她取了玛丽·特蕾莎修女的名字，这来自利塞的圣泰塞。
A year later, Sister Mary Teresa traveled on to Darjeeling, India, for the novitiate period; in May 1931, she made her First Profession of Vows. Afterward, she was sent to Calcutta, where she was assigned to teach at Saint Mary's High School for Girls, a school run by the Loreto Sisters and dedicated to teaching girls from the city's poorest Bengali families. Sister Teresa learned to speak both Bengali and Hindi fluently as she taught geography and history and dedicated herself to alleviating the girls' poverty through education.
一年后，修女玛丽·特蕾莎前往印度大吉岭见习；1931年5月，她第一次宣誓。后来，她被送到加尔各答，在那里她被分配到圣玛丽女子高中任教，这是一所由洛雷托姐妹会开办的学校，致力于教育来自该市最贫穷的孟加拉家庭的女孩。特蕾莎修女在教地理和历史的同时，学会了流利地讲孟加拉语和印地语，并致力于通过教育使女孩们摆脱贫困。
On May 24, 1937, she took her Final Profession of Vows to a life of poverty, chastity and obedience. As was the custom for Loreto nuns, she took on the title of "Mother" upon making her final vows and thus became known as Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa continued to teach at Saint Mary's, and in 1944 she became the school's principal. Through her kindness, generosity and unfailing commitment to her students' education, she sought to lead them to a life of devotion to Christ. "Give me the strength to be ever the light of their lives, so that I may lead them at last to you," she wrote in prayer.
1937年5月24日，她最后一次宣誓过上了贫穷、贞洁和顺从的生活。按照洛雷托修女的习俗，她在最后许愿时就取了“Mother”的称号，因此被称为特蕾莎修女。特蕾莎修女继续在圣玛丽学校教书，1944年她成为学校的校长。通过她的仁慈、慷慨和对学生教育的不懈承诺，她用心引导他们过一种对基督奉献的生活。她曾写道：“求你赐我力量，使我永远作他们生命的光，使我最终领他们到你那里去。”
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