Margaret Elizabeth Noble was born on 28 October, 1867 in Ireland. She net Swami Vivekananda in 1895 for the first time and in response to his call, came to Kolkata in 1898. Margaret Noble was initiated into the monastic order in the same year and given the name, Nivedita, the Dedicated or the Offered one. Swami Vivekananda was in the process of evolving a new monastic order which was to combine renunciation with service. She threw herself totally behind the Swamis efforts in bringing about an Indian Renaissance. In India, she was probably known as Nivedita of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda. She joined plague relief works of the Ramakrishna Mission in March 1898 and formed The Ramakrishna Guild of Help in America. There broke out am overwhelming plague at Kolkata in March 1899 and she devoted herself to serve the diseased. She died in 1911. Throughout her life, she kept assisting the poor and the distressed. Thus, she became a deathlss symbol of relinquisiment and service.