Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta - Boston, MA
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N 42° 19.241 W 071° 03.438
19T E 330473 N 4687431
Originally St. Margaret's Parish from 1904 to 2004 when it merged with St. William Parish to form the new Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Boston's historic Dorchester district. This statue of Mother Teresa is out front.
Waymark Code: WM7852
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 09/17/2009
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Mother Teresa was born in Albania in 1910 and became a Roman Catholic Nun, leaving home at age 18 to enter the order of the Sisters of Loreto. In 1948 she left the order obey the call of God to live and work among the poor of Calcutta. And, in 1950, with papal blessing, she founded the order Missionary of Charity, today operating in over 123 countries with 4,000 sisters and 100,000 lay volunteers. Mother Teresa's special calling was to tend to the poorest of the poor, the sick and dying, those least wanted.
During her lifetime she received many awards and tokens of recognition, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. After her death in 1997, she was beatified by Pope John Paul II, with the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.
From the Dorchester Atheneum
In 1893, St. Margaret's Parish was set off as the first large offshoot from St. Peter's. St. Margaret's was composed of the north-eastern limits of St. Peter's Parish, including the portions lying south of Washington Village and along the line of Dochester Bay nearly to Savin Hill, and on the west to the burial-ground at Upham's Conrer. The first pastor was the Rev. William J. Ryan.
The present St. Margaret's building was built in 1904 to the designs of Keely and Houghton in the Romanesque Revival style. [Note that Dorchester Old and New says the building was built in 1899].
From the 1990s through 2004 the Archdiocese of Boston endured the consequences of allegations and lawsuits involving misconduct by priests with the result that the Archdiocese paid out large monetary settlements. The Archdiocese studied its parishes and determined that low attendance and large expenses warranted the closing of some.
St. William and St. Margaret were the only two parishes, out of 11 Catholic parishes in Dorchester, that felt a direct impact of the Archdiocese' reconfiguration process of early 2004. On August 31, 2004, these two parishes will merge under the name of Blessed Mother Teresa parish, and the new parish will be located at 800 Columbia Road in the building that is now St. Margaret's Church.
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