25 Messed Up Facts You Didn't Know About Mother Teresa
Who, then, is the REAL Teresa? Keep reading to discover some facts that will change how you see her forever!
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A "devil's advocate" was a person sanctioned by the Vatican to argue against the canonization of a potential new saint by pointing out their flaws and critically evaluating their miracles. Christopher Hitchens served as a devil's advocate for Mother Teresa. -u/FinkleIsEeinhorn
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For 60 years, Mother Teresa wrote letters to her confessors and spiritual advisors. Appealing to the secrecy of confessionals, she asked that these letters were to be destroyed. 10 years after her death all her letters were published in a book that became a NY Times Bestseller. -u/EZ_does_it
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Rapper MIA declined a spot on People's world's most beautiful people list because Mother Teresa never made the list. -u/halfmile
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There have been 8 Honorary American citizens and only Winston Churchill and Mother Teresa were given the honor while they were alive. -u/LoyalMongo
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Mother Teresa doubted the presence of God, saying that she "felt no presence of God whatsoever." -u/Qaher-313
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Mother Teresa was anything but a saint, she withheld aide from the sick and poor stating: "There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ's Passion. The world gains much from their suffering." -u/harlequinrose
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Born in 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia. Her name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu but you know her as St. Theresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa). -u/dusky-jewel
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People believed she ran an actual hospice, organized to allow the terminally ill to die in as little pain as possible. But it was not a hospice and people dying of cancer were denied anything stronger than aspirin and ibuprofen, and even when a patients clearly needed surgery they were refused hospital treatment. She bathed in human suffering. -B0BA_F33TT
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Mother Teresa rather wanted to spread her fundamentalist ideas than actually help people. Which includes a lot of repression for many women. -Doctormimmi
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Mother Teresa singled out abortion as 'the greatest destroyer of peace in the world'. -u/Raami0z
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According to Dr. Tarun Praharaj, a cardiologist who treated Mother Teresa after suffering a massive heart attack in 1993. She would refuse to take her medicine and say, "I am well. I want to go home. I have a lot of work to do". -deleted user
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In 1997 Life Magazine named the war-hero horse, Reckless, among history's heroes along with George Washington and Mother Teresa. -u/olagon
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John Paul II is thought to have asked Mother Teresa if she wanted to be a cardinal. She declined. -u/stayfun
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Despite taking billions of dollars in donations, her famed "Homes for the Dying" provided egregiously sub-standard care, and she, despite having the financial resources to do so after gaining notoriety, refused to give the dying for whom she was caring ANY form of pain killers, as she thought it was a holy experience to endure pain. She would tell her patients things like their pain meant that "Jesus was kissing them." -u/ExistentialEnso
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Sarkis Soghanalian, the Cold War's largest arms dealer, nicknamed the Merchant of Death, once received a letter from Mother Teresa stating that God would reward him and his family's efforts a hundredfold. -u/u/Azonata
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During the Seige of Beirut, Mother Teresa brokered a temporary cease-fire between the Israeli army and Palestinian guerillas so she could rescue 37 children trapped in a front-line hospital. -u/Pilpit
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta was neither from India nor Indian. She was born in what is now Macedonia and was ethnically Albanian. -u/DontWantToSeeYourCat
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Mother Teresa once suggested that AIDS might be a just retribution for improper sexual conduct. -u/KaliMaaaa
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Mother Teresa once advocated for a priest's return to ministry, despite knowing that he was removed for raping a boy. Eight more charges later emerged, and the priest was arrested in 2005. -deleted user
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The Eclipsed Celebrity Death club is a group made up of celebs who died at the same time as even more famous celebrities. Members include Mother Teresa, who died around the time of Princess Diana, and British writers CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley, who died the day that JFK was shot. -u/vrlyons
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Members of Mother Teresa's order would secretly baptize dying patients of other religions. Patients were asked if they wanted a 'ticket to heaven'. While pretending to cool the patients forehead, words were quietly recited and the ceremony performed. -u/gmcl86
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Mother Teresa's supposed "miracle cure" of a woman's abdominal tumor was not a miracle at all. The patient's doctors and husband said she was cured because she took medicine for 9-12 months. "My wife was cured by the doctors and not by any miracle." -u/mepper
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When Charles Keating was on trial, Mother Teresa sent the judge a letter asking him to do what Jesus would do. An attorney wrote back to explain how Keating stole money from others and suggested that she return Keating's donation to the victims ... as Jesus would surely do. She never replied. -u/photolouis
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The face of Mother Teresa was claimed to have been identified in a cinnamon bun at Bongo Java in Nashville, Tennessee in 1996. Dubbed the "Nun Bun" by the press, it was turned into an enterprise by the company. On 25 December 2005 the bun was stolen during a break-in at the coffee house. -u/garamond89
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