Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born in 1910 in what is now Albania and Macedonia. She became a Catholic nun and took the name Teresa. In 1950, she founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India to help the poor and sick. Over her lifetime, the Missionaries of Charity expanded to care for the poor in over 100 countries. Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2003 for her humanitarian work serving the sick and destitute.
2. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born in 1910
in Skopje, then Albania and Macedonia
today. He died on September 5, 1997 in
his beloved Calcutta, India.
When she began the religious path she
took the name of Teresa. She founded the
Missionaries of Charity.
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4. She said of herself: "By blood, I am
Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian.
As for faith, I am a Catholic nun. As
to my calling, I belong to the world.
In regards to my heart, I belong
entirely to the Heart of Jesus "
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6. In 1950 Mother Teresa founded the
Congregation of the Missionaries of
Charity, which was approved in 1965 by Pablo
VI. The members of this congregation, to be
added to the traditional vows of dedication
to the "poorest of the poor", achieved rapid
deployment in India and other nearly one
hundred countries in the world, for its
part, the founder mobilized against abortion
and euthanasia, in line with the papal
doctrine of Juan Pablo II
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8. In 1972 Mother Teresa was awarded the
Kennedy Foundation, and in 1979, the
Nobel Peace Prize, whose prize money
donated to the poor. In 1986 he was
visited by John Paul II in Nirmal Hidray or
House of the Pure Heart, which she
founded in Calcutta and best known as
the House of the Dying
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10. After overcoming numerous ill
health, died on September 5, 1997
of a heart attack victim. Thousands
of people from around the world
gathered in India to dismiss the
Saint of the Sewers. She was
beatified in 2003 by Pope Juan Pablo
II.