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Rob Croes / Anefo, Nationaal Archief, 11 June 1988, CC0 · Black-and-white press photograph of Mother Teresa taken by Rob Croes (Anefo) at a Catholic meeting in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on 11 June 1988 (Nationaal Archief, Fotocollectie Anefo, file number 934-2638, originally photographed with a bishop, Philippe Bar, standing at her left). Cropped from the 3739 x 2481 original to the right-hand part showing only her, then downscaled to 720 x 1200; no upscaling. Rights basis: the Commons record quotes the archive record naming Nationaal Archief as rightsholder and carries the Nationaal Archief template with a CC0 tag, consistent with the archive's open release of the Anefo collection. Caveat: the archive's own page (proxy.handle.net record) is rendered by JavaScript and its licence text could not be read directly here, so the CC0 statement is taken from the Commons transcription of the archive record. · CC0 1.0 (Nationaal Archief, Anefo collection)
religious leader · 20th Century
Mother Teresa
1910–1997
Known For
socialcultural
Not yet included in personality matching — the documented evidence doesn't yet cover enough of the personality model. Everything else on this page is fully available.
Trait Constellation
Key Achievements
In 1948 she left the Loreto convent school in Calcutta to work among the poorest, and in 1950 received Holy See permission to found the Missionaries of Charity.
Her order ran homes for the dying, orphanages, mobile clinics and leprosy centres, and by 1997 the Vatican counted about 610 foundations in 123 countries.
She received the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize; critics such as Christopher Hitchens and a 2013 University of Montreal review have questioned the quality of care in some homes and the order's finances.
Moments That Reveal Them
In 1948, after a short medical course, she left the convent with no funds and began an open-air school for slum children, soon joined by former students.
This is consistent with starting work with very few resources and relying on others joining. Resourcefulness
In 1952 she asked Indian officials for a place where the dying could be cared for and was given part of an abandoned temple, which she renamed Nirmal Hriday.
This is consistent with taking the initiative to approach authorities for what the work needed. Proactive Agency
Turning Points
In 1948, after about two years of waiting for permission, she exchanged her teaching life at Loreto for work in the Calcutta slums.
This is consistent with giving up an established position for uncertain work. Risk Tolerance
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Sources
- Mother Teresa (Q30547), verified live via the Wikidata API (2026-10-24): label 'Mother Teresa', description 'Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary (1910-1997)', born 1910-08-26, died 1997-09-05, Korean label in Hangul. Orientation only; not used as support for any row.
- Nobel Peace Prize 1979, Presentation Speech by Professor John Sanness, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (NobelPrize.org), read in full. CANONICAL SIGNIFICANCE SOURCE: summarises her vocation, leaving the Loreto school in 1948 for the slums of Calcutta after a nursing course, the Missionaries of Charity with a fourth vow of wholehearted free service to the poorest, papal-congregation status in 1965, and the order's slum schools, orphanages, mobile clinics, leprosy centres, hostels for the dying and food kitchens. Award-body speech: admiring, and framed around the committee's own peace theme.
- Mother Teresa, Biographical (NobelPrize.org, written at the time of the 1979 award), read in full: teaching at St. Mary's in Calcutta 1931-1948, permission in 1948 to work in the slums, an open-air school for slum children, Holy See permission on 7 October 1950 to found the Missionaries of Charity, the 1965 decree, later branches (1963, 1976, 1979, 1984), Co-Workers, and the awards received. Official biography; factual and admiring.
- Vatican biography 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)' (vatican.va, published for the 2003 beatification), read in full: the Loreto years and principalship, nearly two years of discernment before permission to leave, the first days in the slums, the founding of the Missionaries of Charity, expansion to 610 foundations in 123 countries by 1997 and houses in communist countries from 1980, and the Co-Workers. A hagiographic institutional source. Its passages on her interior spiritual life and the 'darkness' were read but deliberately excluded from scoring.
- 'Mother Teresa', Prejudice in the Modern World Reference Library (Gale, via Encyclopedia.com), read in full: the Loreto years, the 1946 call, the two-year wait for permission, medical training at Holy Family Hospital, the open-air school, Nirmal Hriday home for the dying (1952), the Mother House (1953), Shishu Bhavan orphanage (1955), Shanti Nagar leprosy colony (1965), the branches she founded, her ability to attract support, awards, and a Controversy section on her opposition to birth control and abortion, her remarks during India's Emergency, financial-management criticism and disputed figures. General reference account that includes criticism.
- Christopher Hitchens, 'Mommie Dearest' (Slate, October 2003, republished 2016), read in full. COUNTER-VOICE: a polemical critical essay arguing that the beatification process was rushed, that the order refused to publish an audit, that she accepted donations from controversial donors, that the Calcutta hospice remained primitive, and that she opposed reform of Catholic doctrine. A strongly adversarial opinion piece: used only as the critical counter-voice and to flag disputed points, not as a source of facts about her inner motives. Its claims about doctrine, politics and the beatification miracle are excluded from scoring.
- ScienceBlog / University of Montreal press release 'Mother Teresa: Far from Saintly' (2013), read in full, summarising Serge Larivee, Genevieve Chenard and Carole Senechal, 'Mother Teresa: Anything but a saint' (Studies in Religion / Sciences religieuses, 2013): a review of 287 published documents; reports visiting doctors' observations of poor hygiene, lack of painkillers and little actual care in some Calcutta homes for the dying, finances kept in undisclosed accounts, and an image built with media help. The article itself was NOT opened (SAGE blocked), so this is a secondhand summary of a critical academic review that relies heavily on Hitchens; no row depends on it alone.
- Nationaal Archief, Fotocollectie Anefo, photograph 'Bijeenkomst Contact Rooms Katholieken in Utrecht; Moeder Teresa en mgr. Bar' by Rob Croes, 11 June 1988, file number 934-2638, and its Wikimedia Commons file page (Nationaal Archief template and CC0 tag), checked for the portrait only.