After contracting tuberculosis in Calcutta, she was sent to Darjeeling to recover. She later remembered: "It was in the train I heard the call to give up all and follow Him to the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor."
Two years later, Pope Pius XII granted her permission to leave her order.
After taking a medical training course, she went into the slums of Calcutta to start a school for children. They called her 'Mother Teresa'.
In 1950, she founded the Missionaries of Charity, which was recognised by the Archdiocese of Calcutta. The Vatican recognised the organisation as a pontifical congregation the same year.
Her words: "What I can do, you cannot. What you can do, I cannot. But together we can do something beautiful for God."
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