Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Something beautiful for God
From an Albanian girl in Skopje to the saint of Calcutta's poor — the life of one who saw Christ in every abandoned face.
14 episodes · Narrated in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French and German
Episode 1 is free
Episodes
- 01
The Train to Darjeeling
A nun on a monsoon train receives an order she can tell no one. To understand it, we must go back to a girl from Skopje.
- 02
Gonxha
A widowed mother, letters from missionaries in India, and a train station where she says goodbye forever.
- 03
Sister Teresa
A novice in the mountains, a teacher on the plain: the happy years of a nun, before everything changed.
- 04
Behind the Wall
War, famine and massacres outside — and, inside, a headmistress with three hundred girls and no rice.
- 05
How a Nun Leaves the Convent
An archbishop who says wait, letters to Ireland and Rome, and a cheap cotton sari.
- 06
Alone in the Street
A school scratched in the dirt, a diary of exhaustion, and the first former pupil to knock at the door.
- 07
The Home of the Pure Heart
An empty hostel beside the temple of Kali, a woman who says thank you as she dies, and babies rescued from garbage cans.
- 08
The Night
For about half a century, she wrote that she could not feel God. Only a few priests read the letters — and she asked that they be burned.
- 09
The Ones No One Touches
Men with bandaged hands who weave the sisters' saris, a City of Peace, and the first sisters to leave India.
- 10
Something Beautiful for God
A BBC camera, a light that each man explains in his own way, and a Nobel Peace Prize spoken in a teacher's voice.
- 11
Among Bombs and the Powerful
She crosses the line of fire in Beirut, opens a home for people with AIDS — and accepts a dictator's medal and a banker's money.
- 12
The Questions
The editor of a medical journal, an atheist journalist, a doctor from Calcutta, a former sister. And the sisters' reply.
- 13
The Last Night in the Mother House
Hospitals, a prayer requested by an archbishop, a successor — and a gun carriage in the rain.
- 14
Saint of Darkness
A cause opened in haste, two miracles, one of them disputed, and the letters she asked to have destroyed.
Read more on the Journal
Mother Teresa's Dark Night: The Fifty-Year Secret in Her Letters
For most of her ministry, Mother Teresa felt no presence of God — a hidden 'dark night' revealed only after her death in her private letters, 'Come Be My Light.'
The Two Miracles That Made Mother Teresa a Saint
How the Church discerned the sainthood of Mother Teresa of Calcutta — the two approved miracles in India and Brazil, and every step from Servant of God to canonized saint.
