"an interest in the matter; it was recorded in his diary that he met Robert Peel on 16 January 1844 to discuss the ""idea of institution of a civil Order of Merit"" and, three days later, he conferred with the Queen on the subject. The concept did not wither and, on 5 January 1888, British prime minister Lord Salisbury submitted to the Queen a draft constitution for an Order of Merit in Science and Art, consisting of one grade split into two branches of knighthood: the Order of Scientific Merit for Knights of Merit in Science, with the post-nominal letters"
"2013, Pope Francis chose his papal name as a tribute to St. Francis, ""the man who gives us this spirit of peace"". Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Kolkata, India) made it part of the morning prayers of the Roman Catholic religious institute she founded, the Missionaries of Charity. She attributed importance to the prayer when receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in 1979 and asked that it be recited. It became the anthem of many Christian schools in Kolkata. South Africa's Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent leadership against apartheid, declared that"
"133 countries in 2012. The congregation manages homes for people dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; dispensaries and mobile clinics; children's- and family-counselling programmes; orphanages, and schools. Members, who take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, also profess a fourth vow: to give ""wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor."" Teresa received a number of honours, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She was canonised (recognised by the church as a saint) on 4 September 2016, and the anniversary of her death (5 September) is her feast day. A controversial"
"received the Pacem in Terris Award in 1976. After her death, Teresa progressed rapidly on the road to sainthood. She was honoured by governments and civilian organisations, and appointed an honorary Companion of the Order of Australia in 1982 ""for service to the community of Australia and humanity at large"". The United Kingdom and the United States bestowed a number of awards, culminating in the Order of Merit in 1983 and honorary citizenship of the United States on 16 November 1996. Teresa's Albanian homeland gave her the Golden Honour of the Nation in 1994, but her acceptance of this and"
"Mother Teresa Mother Teresa, known in the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, ; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (now the capital of Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Macedonia for eighteen years she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life. In 1950 Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation which had over 4,500 sisters and was active in"
"Bose in 1992, who went missing since 18 August 1945. Similarly in 2015, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to award Madan Mohan Malaviya, who died in 1946, met with criticism. Janardan Dwivedi, politician of the Indian National Congress, said that Malaviya, who worked predominantly in Varanasi, was ""deliberately chosen"" by the Prime Minister Modi, who is the incumbent Member of Parliament from Varanasi. A few of the conferments have been criticised for honouring personalities only after they received global recognition. The award for Mother Teresa was announced in 1980, a year after she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize."
"different purposes, was approved by Mother Nirmala for use of the St. Bernadette Institute for Sacred Art.) 2005 2006 International Awardee: National Awardees: 2008 International Awardee: National Awardees: 2010 International Awardee: National Awardees 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Mother Teresa Awards The ' are awards to honour individuals and organizations that promote peace, equality and social justice, and aim to encourage the cause of justice and peaceful coexistence, while providing a impetus for society to imbibe these values. The award is given in honour of Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa Awards have been given since 2004 annually or biannually. They"
"the Sacred Heart, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. The Catholic nun Mother Teresa of Calcutta, India, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work among India's poor. Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo won the same award in 1996 for ""work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor"". The church is also actively engaged in international aid and development through organisations such as Catholic Relief Services, Caritas International, Aid to the Church in Need, refugee"
"Mother Teresa Awards The ' are awards to honour individuals and organizations that promote peace, equality and social justice, and aim to encourage the cause of justice and peaceful coexistence, while providing a impetus for society to imbibe these values. The award is given in honour of Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa Awards have been given since 2004 annually or biannually. They are an initiative of Harmony Foundation, an organization created by Abraham Mathai in Mumbai. It is the only award in the name of Mother Teresa recognised by the Missionaries of Charity. (Another award by this name, awarded for slightly"
"Mary II, Anne, Victoria and Elizabeth II have received the position of the Supreme Governor of the Church of England upon their accessions to the throne. Among the most famous women missionaries of the period was Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work in ""bringing help to suffering humanity"". She was beatified in 2003, just six years after her death. Many Christian women and religious have been prominent advocates in social policy debates - as with American nun Helen Prejean, a Sister of Saint Joseph of Medaille, who is a prominent"
"formal opening of the cause under Pope Pius XII on 30 July 1944. Pope Paul VI approved the findings of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and approved the fact that she had lived a life of heroic virtue. As a result, on 23 May 1975, he declared her to be Venerable. Pope John Paul II approved a miracle attributed to her intercession on 16 November 1985 and beatified her on 19 October 1986. Teresa Maria Manetti Teresa Maria Manetti (3 March 1846 – 23 April 1910), born Teresa Adelaide Cesina Manetti, was an Italian Roman Catholic nun and"
"Chatterjee (author of ""The Final Verdict"", a book critical of Teresa) spoke to the tribunal; according to Vatican officials, the allegations raised were investigated by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. The group found no obstacle to Teresa's canonisation, and issued its ""nihil obstat"" on 21 April 1999. Because of the attacks on her, some Catholic writers called her a sign of contradiction. A separate medical committee ruled that the miracle of Monica Besra, one of three considered by Kolodiejchuk, was evidence of divine intercession. Teresa was beatified on 19 October 2003, and was known by Catholics as ""Blessed""."
"State and Pope's representative, Angelo Sodano. Teresa's death was mourned in the secular and religious communities. Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif called her ""a rare and unique individual who lived long for higher purposes. Her life-long devotion to the care of the poor, the sick, and the disadvantaged was one of the highest examples of service to our humanity."" According to former U.N. Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, ""She is the United Nations. She is peace in the world."" Teresa was first recognised by the Indian government more than a third of a century earlier, receiving the Padma Shri"
"of a confidential report that Upton sent to the Department of Foreign Affairs in October 1980 was published in ""The Age"". The published report included critical remarks about the then Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, who had been in office for less than a year at the time. After the leak, five members of the Indian Parliament reportedly demanded that Upton be recalled, but the statement was not made on behalf of the Indian Government and Upton retained his position. Upton, in his position as High Commissioner to India in 1983, presented Mother Teresa with an Order of Australia, for"
"Pope Paul VI on 6 September 1966 and she was titled as a Servant of God while Pope John Paul II later confirmed her heroic virtue and named her to be Venerable on 1 September 1988; he later beatified her on 27 September 1992 in Saint Peter's Square. Pope Francis confirmed a miracle attributed to her in 2018 and she was canonized on 14 October 2018. Nazaria Ignacia March Mesa was born in 1889 in Madrid as the fourth of ten children to José Alejandro March Reus (3 April 1850–???) and Nazaria de Mesa Ramos de Peralta (28 July 1853–???)."
"Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic – 3 April 1991[7] Knight Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Italian Republic – 2 April 1997[8] Japan Praemium Imperiale - 2013 Mexico Orden del Águila Azteca, (Mexico).[9][10] Monaco Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit (November 1999)[11] Spain Premio Príncipe de Asturias – 18 October 1991 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit – 20 September 2002 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Arts and Letters of Spain – 14 January 2011 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic – 20 January"
"John Paul II declared her to have lived a life of heroic virtue and named her Venerable on 7 July 1997. Pope Francis approved a decree that recognized a miracle attributed to her intercession on 22 January 2015, thus, clearing her for beatification. Cardinal Angelo Amato presided over the beatification in Frascati on 31 October 2015. Maria Teresa Casini Blessed Maria Teresa Casini (27 October 1864 – 3 April 1937) was an Italian nun and was the founder of the Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The order was devoted to providing care for those around them with"
"on the outskirts of Madrid. In 2010, in honor of the worldwide Jubilee Year for the Visitation order, Pope Benedict XVI granted a plenary indulgence to those who would make a visit to and pray in a Visitation monastery. Léonie Martin, the sister of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, became a nun of the Order of the Visitation. She received the veil on the 2nd of July 1900 and took the name Sister Françoise-Thérèse Martin. On the 24 January 2015 the process for Leonie's beatification began and she is now known as Servant of God."
"and conferred on her the title of Venerable on 3 April 2014. A miracle attributed to her was investigated and the process of that investigation was ratified on 8 February 2013. Maria Dulce Rodrigues dos Santos Venerable Maria Dulce Rodrigues dos Santos (20 January 1901 – 8 January 1972) was a Brazilian nun and the founder of the Little Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate. She assumed the name of Maria Teresa of the Eucharistic Jesus after she had become a nun. Pope Francis recognized her life of heroic virtue and proclaimed her to be Venerable on 3 April 2014. Maria"
"(L.H.D., 2008). She was awarded the Golden Arrow of Achievement by the Guyanese government in 1982, and in 2015 was inducted into the Order of Roraima. Mary Noel Menezes Sister Mary Noel Menezes OR (born 14 July 1930) is a Guyanese Roman Catholic nun and historian. She has been involved with the University of Guyana since 1967, as a lecturer, head of department, full professor, and professor emeritus. She specialises in Guyanese history, particularly that of Amerindians and Portuguese Guyanese. Menezes was born in Georgetown, British Guiana, to a family of Madeiran origin. She entered the Sisters of Mercy at"
"Maria Teresa of St. Joseph Maria Teresa of Saint Joseph (19 June 1855 - 20 September 1938) - Anna Maria Tauscher van den Bosch was a German Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus. Tauscher worked in Cologne and was removed from her position after she converted to Roman Catholicism in 1888 so founded a religious order in the Netherlands upon choosing the Carmelite charism for her life. Her beatification was held in mid-2006 in the Netherlands. Anna Maria Tauscher van den Bosch was born in the German Confederation on"
"Rome to promulgate the decree of Heroic Virtues of their Foundress, Mother Mary Angeline Teresa, O.Carm. Brigid Teresa McCrory was born on 21 January 1893 in Brockagh, Tyrone, Ireland. When she was seven years of age her family migrated to Bellshill Mossend, Scotland, and at the age of nineteen she left home to become a Little Sister of the Poor. In 1915 she was sent to the United States, and in the late 1920s founded the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm. She opened 59 homes for the aged and died on 21 January 1984, her birthday. Brockagh Brockagh"
"recipients are : These decorations are awarded for targeted reasons : Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana The Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana (, sometimes translated as the Order of the Cross of St. Mary’s Land) was instituted by the President of Estonia, Lennart Meri, in 1995 to honour the independence of the Estonian state. (The Latin name ""Terra Mariana"", meaning ""Land of Mary"", serves as a poetic synonym for Estonia, and designated the area including present-day Estonia in medieval times.) The Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana is bestowed upon the President of the Republic."
"what right she assumes the power to forgive. There are even some conscientious Christians who would say that forgiveness, like the astringent of revenge, is reserved to a higher power."" Mother Teresa died in 1997. Aroup Chatterjee and Christopher Hitchens were the two Devil's advocates, or hostile witnesses, in the Catholic Church's beatification procedures for Mother Teresa in 2003. She was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint in 2016. Sanal Edamaruku and others have argued against the two miracles that were required for her canonization and credited to her. Gëzim Alpion wrote the critical book """" (2007) and Aroup Chatterjee"
"Teresa Hsu Teresa Hsu Chih (7 July 1898 – 7 December 2011) (), was a Chinese-born Singaporean social worker, known affectionately as ""Singapore's Mother Teresa"", in recognition for her active lifelong devotion in helping the aged sick and destitutes locally. The retired nurse was the founder of the non-profit charities—Heart to Heart Service and the Home for the Aged Sick, one of the first homes for the aged sick in Singapore. She had been a social worker in China and Paraguay and a nurse in England, before coming to Singapore to start similar non-profit charities since 1961. Despite being a"
"conferred the title of Venerable upon her in 1991 after confirming that she had lived a model life of heroic virtue. Maria Teresa Merlo was born on 20 February 1894 in Cuneo as the second of four children to the peasants Ettore Merlo and Vincenza Rolando; her siblings were all brothers: the priest Leone Costanzo, Giovanni Battista and Carlo. She received the sacrament of baptism on 22 February 1894 in the parish church of Saint John the Baptist and received it from Father Pietro Palladino; her godparents were Leone Merlo and Margherita Rava Rolando. From 1901 until 1903 she commenced"
"Humanitarian by the International Pediatric Association in 1977. Also in 1977, del Mundo was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service. in 2008, she received the Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Award of the AY Foundation. On April 22, 2010, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo awarded del Mundo the Order of Lakandula with the rank of ""Bayani"" at the Malacañan Palace. Posthumously, she was conferred the Grand Collar of the Order of the Golden Heart Award by President Benigno Aquino III in 2011. On November 27, 2018, a Google Doodle was displayed to celebrate del Mundo's 107th birthday. Fe del Mundo Fe"
"and was finally bestowed upon her by Pope Paul VI on 27 September 1970, along with Saint Catherine of Siena, making them the first women to be awarded the distinction. Teresa is revered as the Doctor of Prayer. The mysticism in her works exerted a formative influence upon many theologians of the following centuries, such as Francis of Sales, Fénelon, and the Port-Royalists. The kernel of Teresa's mystical thought throughout all her writings is the ascent of the soul in four stages (""The Autobiography"" Chs. 10-22): The first, Devotion of Heart, is mental prayer of devout concentration or contemplation. It"
"2003, she was beatified, the third step toward possible sainthood. A second miracle credited to Mother Teresa is required before she can be recognised as a saint by the Catholic Church. After the construction of several subdivisions in the Malvern area in the 1970s, Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute, the high school in that area, was opened in 1978. In its conception, on September 3, 1985, a new school in the Scarborough area of Toronto was to be named ""Mary Ward"". Then trustee Harold Adams advocated for the new school to be named ""Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School"". Another school"
"Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana The Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana (, sometimes translated as the Order of the Cross of St. Mary’s Land) was instituted by the President of Estonia, Lennart Meri, in 1995 to honour the independence of the Estonian state. (The Latin name ""Terra Mariana"", meaning ""Land of Mary"", serves as a poetic synonym for Estonia, and designated the area including present-day Estonia in medieval times.) The Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana is bestowed upon the President of the Republic. Presidents of the Republic who have ceased to hold office keep"
"Teresa Maria Manetti Teresa Maria Manetti (3 March 1846 – 23 April 1910), born Teresa Adelaide Cesina Manetti, was an Italian Roman Catholic nun and was the founder of the Carmelite Sisters of Saint Teresa. She took the name of ""Teresa Maria of the Cross"" when she became a Carmelite nun. She was beatified in 1986 after the recognition of a miracle attributed to her. Teresa Maria Manetti was born on 3 March 1846 in Campi Bisenzio as the daughter of Salvatore Manetti and Rosa Bigagli. Her brother was Adamo Raffaello. Manetti lived her life in a small village outside"
"María Teresa Tula. The offices of the committee were subject to police raids by the government, and the members were allegedly subject to systematic rape in order to destroy the organization. A total of about 48 members were abducted by death squads and subject to torture and rape. Of these, five were assassinated. In 1984, Comadres received the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights Award for individuals or groups around the world who show courage and have made a significant contribution to human rights in their country. In 1986, Bono of the rock band U2 paid tribute"
"in 1962 and the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in 1969. She later received other Indian awards, including the Bharat Ratna (India's highest civilian award) in 1980. Teresa's official biography, by Navin Chawla, was published in 1992. In Kolkata, she is worshipped as a goddess by some Hindus. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of her birth, the government of India issued a special 5 coin (the amount of money Teresa had when she arrived in India) on 28 August 2010. President Pratibha Patil said, ""Clad in a white sari with a blue border, she and the sisters of Missionaries"