124 years ago today, on August 27, 1901 (July 14, 1901, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mother Theresa, was born. Mother Theresa and Visitors The 1979 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Indian Sister Theresa in recognition of her "work to overcome poverty." At the awarding ceremony, Mother Teresa said: "I accept this prize in the name of the poor." After evening prayers, she told reporters: "Greed-greed for power, greed for money, greed for reputation, this is the biggest obstacle to peace in the world today. After winning the award, Mother Teresa sold the medal and donated it all to the poor and lepers, along with the $190,000 prize money, leaving not a penny for herself. Today, her name has traveled across thousands of mountains and rivers and spread throughout the world. With her sincerity in dedicating herself to charity and the spirit of facing hardships, she has won the love and respect of hundreds of millions of people and is regarded as the "embodiment of kindness and light" by people. On August 27, 1901, Theresa was born in Skopje, the former Yugoslavia. Her father was a grocer and his family was not rich, but her father loved her and her brothers were close, so she grew up in a warm family life. She entered a public school at the age of 7 and soon converted to Catholicism. Her kind and loving nature fascinated her with charity. She recalled: "When I was 12 years old, I realized that I had a mission, which was to help the poor. I want to be a missionary." At the age of 18, Teresa joined the Sisters of Loreto. This is a community of nuns under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Calcutta, India. In 1928, the organization arranged for her to teach at St. Mary's Church School in Calcutta. In 1946, Theresa took a train to Darjeeling in the mountains of northeastern India. The barren villages along the way, the skinny and ragged poor people shocked her. She "seemed to hear a voice shouting to her: 'Serve the poorest of the poor!' '"She was determined to leave her isolated missionary school and help those who were hungry and cold in society. Two years later, at Teresa's repeated insistence, the Vatican finally agreed to her secession from the Sisters of Loreto. After three months of rapid medical training at the American Medical Missionary Sisters in India, she entered the slum alone. With her little savings, she founded an open-air school to take in street children who had dropped out of school. In 1950, Teresa founded the Sisters of Charity in India and formulated canons for it: all members of the church must make vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. "To love and understand the poor, we must be poor ourselves," she explained. All medicines from this charity are donated and provided to the poor without charge. Today, the institution is international: 3500 nuns manage 543 shelters, orphanages and AIDS centers in 115 countries. In 1952, Theresa built a "shelter for the dying poor" next to a Hindu temple so that the poor could enjoy the warmth of the world as they lay dying. The move angered monks at the temple, who gathered outside the shelter and threatened to kill Mother Teresa. Theresa blocked the door with her body and said loudly,"Kill me if you want to kill me. Let these dying patients die peacefully!" After saying that, she put her hands together and closed her eyes. Her fearless spirit intimidated the troublemakers, and the monks finally left without interest. By the late 1980s, about 30,000 poor people with incurable diseases and homeless conditions were spending their last days in shelters. When the reporter asked if it was worth saving these people with incurable diseases, she couldn't even understand the meaning of the question because it was incompatible with her outlook on life. After that, Theresa began to consider treating leprosy patients. Pope Paul VI received Theresa during a visit to India in 1964 and gave her one of his limousines. Theresa later sold the car, used the proceeds from the auction to build a building for leprosy patients, and trained some nursing staff, making it the only leprosy center in Calcutta. Theresa's cause was supported by the government. In 1962, Air India followed Gandhi's instructions and provided her with free tickets on various routes, as did the railways. Despite Teresa's rise to fame, she always told reporters that her achievements were insignificant. She likes to say that working for a purpose is happiness. In November 1982, while war was raging in Lebanon, Theresa took the opportunity to arrive in Beirut and helped rescue 37 mentally retarded and disabled children from the destroyed Erasmaya Hospital. In 1985, she led 28 nuns to disaster-stricken Ethiopia, working day and night to help medical staff take care of patients. In the second half of 1985, AIDS spread like wildfire in Europe and the United States, and people fell into terror. Theresa traveled to New York to promote the dangers of AIDS and prevention and control measures, and to assist medical staff in caring for patients. Mother Teresa visited China in January 1985 at the invitation of the Patriotic Catholic Committee of China. It was the cold winter season when dripping water turned to ice, but this world-famous woman was only dressed in white, with a dark blue worn sweater and a pair of half-worn sandals. The simple costumes deeply moved the China people present. Bishop Zong Huaide, Chairman of the Patriotic Catholic Committee of China, immediately sent someone to buy warm clothes and distribute them to Theresa and her assistants. The bishop also told her that charity in China is the responsibility of the government's civil affairs department. Theresa said with satisfaction: "China gave me a good impression. On September 5, 1997, Mother Teresa died of a heart attack in Kolkata, India, at the age of 87. Theresa receives many visitors every day and receives about US$50 million in donations every year. In some religious schools, her photos are hung side by side with photos of Jesus and Gandhi. She accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in 1979. She refused to attend the dinner after the meeting, believing that there were still many people in the world who were suffering from poverty and that it was inappropriate to attend such a luxurious dinner party