Mother Teresa: Saint of Calcutta

By Elaine Murray Stone

Mother Teresa tells the inspiring story of the most revered and loved woman of our times. Born in Albania in 1910, Mother Teresa joined the Missionary Sisters of Loreto and was sent to India to teach in a high school. In Calcutta she saw the staggering poverty, disease and misery of the poor often left to die in the streets. Mother Teresa felt called by God to live among these outcasts to nurse and care for them and enable them to die in dignity. Elaine Murray Stone tells the incredible story of how God blessed the Missionaries of Charity, which Mother founded, and how their work spread around the world. Young and old will find this moving account of these heroic women living the Gospel a source of deeper faith, hope and Christian commitment. +

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809166518
• ISBN13: 9780809166510
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

A great learning experience

The material is very moving and deep seated. I am not a deeply religious person, but this book has touched me. Elaine Stone presented facts about Mother Theresa of which the average person has no knowledge. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Virginia S. King, secretary NLAPW Inc, Cape Canaveral Branch

Elaine Murray Stone has a rare ability to bring Teresa alive

Elaine Murray Stone has the rare ability of bringing our saints and heroes to life. It is good to see her "Mother Teresa" living vividly in her pages, and so soon after that great saint's death. Perhaps we needed a princess and a saint, and how extra-ordinary that they died the same week. But Elaine Stone writes not about a dead saint, but a vibrantly living one, and in a style suited for both student and teacher. This is a beautifully crafted biography, and a needed one. It will be around for a long time. Madeliene L'Engle Newberry Award author

Dr. Stone's book does much to lead her readers to the saint

Dr. Stone's book does much to lead her readers to come and know the Mother Teresa of these qualities; a holiness that was rooted in joy, humility that was rooted in an openness to all God asks of her, and a humor that never allowed her to take herself too seriously. This book leads us through the journey of Mother Teresa's life when the dream of the young girl to be a missionary folds into "the pencil in God's hand" that comes to write God's loving signature on the minds and hearts of millions throughout much of the twentyth century. Father Michael Mannion, former chaplain of the Catholic University, Washington, D. C.