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Mother Teresa
Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, honored in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, is an Albanian Indian Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje, then a member of Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she spent most of her life. In 1950 Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of over 4,500 nuns and operating in 133 countries in 2012. This church operates homes for people dying of HIV / AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis. It also operates soup kitchens, pharmacies, mobile clinics, counseling programs for children and families, as well as orphanages and schools. Members took vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, and also made a fourth oath - “serve the poorest of the poor with all their hearts”.
BornAnjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, August 26, 1910, Skopje, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire, (present-day Skopje, North Macedonia)
DiedSeptember 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India (present-day Kolkata)
Beatified19 October 2003, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II
Canonized4 September 2016, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope Francis
Major shrineMother House of the Missionaries of Charity, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Feast5 September
AttributesNun's habit, Rosary
PatronageWorld Youth Day, Missionaries of Charity, Archdiocese of Calcutta (co-patron)

About Mother Teresa

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Religious Leader Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia (She dies at the age of 87, on September 5, 1997).

She was a Catholic nun named Anjeze Bojaxhiu who dedicated her life to caring for the sick and destitute. She spent the majority of her life in India, founding the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta in 1950 to offer hospices for persons suffering from AIDS, leprosy, and other ailments.

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Mother Teresa before becoming famous

Mother Teresa was born in the Zodiac sign Virgo (The Maiden), and 1910 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Dog (狗).

She grew up in the Ottoman Empire, where she was persuaded at the age of 12 to commit her life to Christianity after hearing stories about missionaries in Bengal.

Achievement of Mother Teresa

She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work, and the Catholic Church beatified her in 2003, the third step on the path to sainthood.

Mother Teresa's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

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Her older sister was Age, and her older brother was Lazar. She was the third child of Nikola and Dranafile Bojaxhiu.

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Ronald Reagan awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985.

Mother Teresa Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Mother Teresa updated on March 20 2023.