CTS Biographies - Ignatius Press

16M OTHER T ERESAwanted to go out and give the life of Christ to the people.”Priests from the same Jesuit province as Fr Jambrenovicwere working in Bengal. They wrote that sisters fromanother international order had been working in the area forsome time. They were sisters of the Institute of the BlessedVirgin and were of the Irish branch of that community.Agnes would apply to join them and contact was madewith the motherhouse in Rafthfarnham, Dublin.When she told her mother of her decision, Drana, wellaware that it would mean she would never see her daughteragain, could not come out of her room for twenty-fourhours. When she did emerge, once more composed, shetold her daughter, still not quite eighteen, “Put your hand inHis hand and make your entire journey with Him.”On 1st September 1928 Albania became a monarchyunder King Zog I. Agnes’s brother Lazar, now 21, hadbeen made a lieutenant and was to become an equerry tothe king. When Agnes wrote to him to congratulate him,and also to tell her of her decision to enter religious lifefor the missions in India, Lazar was understandably upsetand wrote back asking how a lovely young girl like hercould give up everything and go so far away, probablynever to see him and the rest of the family again?In her reply Agnes wrote one sentence which Lazarremembered word for word for the rest of his life. “Youwill serve a king of two million people,” she wrote. “Ishall serve the king of the whole world.”