{"id":32366,"date":"2015-06-23T16:56:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T20:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32366"},"modified":"2015-07-07T10:14:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T14:14:17","slug":"sister-nirmala-who-succeeded-mother-teresa-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/06\/sister-nirmala-who-succeeded-mother-teresa-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister Nirmala, who succeeded Mother Teresa, died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Sr-Nirmala-and-Bl-Teresa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-32367 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Sr-Nirmala-and-Bl-Teresa-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"Sr Nirmala and Bl Teresa\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Sr-Nirmala-and-Bl-Teresa-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Sr-Nirmala-and-Bl-Teresa-1024x631.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Sr-Nirmala-and-Bl-Teresa-142x88.jpg 142w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Sr-Nirmala-and-Bl-Teresa.jpg 1484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Sister Nirmala Joshi, MC, the woman who succeeded Mother Teresa as the leader of the Missionaries of Charity, in 1997, has died at the age of 81. She had been\u00a0suffering from a heart condition.<\/p>\n<p>Sister Nirmala was the superior of the\u00a0order until 2009, when she stepped down because of\u00a0ill health. Before that she held positions of leadership in the congregation including being a founding member of the contemplative branch of the Missionaries of Charity. Sister Mary Prema Pierick, a German sister, was elected\u00a0superior general.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, Sister Nirmala was born the second of 10 children on July 23, 1934\u00a0to\u00a0a Nepalese Hindu family in the Bihar state. Her\u00a0given the name Kusum, meaning flower. Sister\u00a0graduated with an undergraduate degree from Patna Women\u2019s College, administered\u00a0by Apostolic Carmel nuns and later earned a Master&#8217;s degree and a law degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sister Nirmala Joshi, MC, the woman who succeeded Mother Teresa as the leader of the Missionaries of Charity, in 1997, has died at the age of 81. She had been\u00a0suffering from a heart condition. Sister Nirmala was the superior of the\u00a0order until 2009, when she stepped down because of\u00a0ill health. Before that she held positions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/06\/sister-nirmala-who-succeeded-mother-teresa-died\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sister Nirmala, who succeeded Mother Teresa, died<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[32059],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32370,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32366\/revisions\/32370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}