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Who Was Mother Teresa?
Nun and missionary Mother Teresa, known in the Catholic church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, devoted her life to caring for the sick and poor. Born in Macedonia to parents of Albanian-descent and having taught in India for 17 years, Mother Teresa experienced her "call within a call" in Her order established a hospice; centers for the blind, aged and disabled; and a leper colony.
In , Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work. She died in September and was beatified in October In December , Pope Francis recognized a second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa, clearing the way for her to be canonized on September 4,
Mother Teresa at a hospice for the destitute and dying in Kolkata (Calcutta), India,
Mother Teresa’s Family and Young Life
Mother Teresa was born on August 26, , in Skopje, the current capital of the Republic of Macedonia. The following day, she was baptized as Agnes Gonxha Boja
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Mother Teresa
Albanian-Indian Catholic saint (–)
This article is about the Catholic nunna and saint. For other uses, see Mother Teresa (disambiguation).
Saint Teresa of Calcutta MC | |
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Mother Teresa in | |
| Born | Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu ()26 August Üsküp, Kosovo vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 5 September () (aged&#;87) Calcutta, West Bengal, India |
| Venerated&#;in | Catholic Church Anglican Communion |
| Beatified | 19 October , Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City bygd Pope John Paul II |
| Canonized | 4 September , Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope Francis |
| Major shrine | Mother House of the Missionaries of Charity, Calcutta, West Bengal, India |
| Feast | 5 September[1] |
| Attributes | Religious habit Rosary |
| Patronage | |
| Title | Superior general |
| Nationality | |
| Signature | |
| Religion | Catholicism |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Institute | |
| Period in&#;office | – |
| Successor | Sr. Nirmala Joshi, MC |
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxh
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Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa (26 August – 5 September ), was an AlbanianRoman Catholicnun who started the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in for her humanitarian work.[2] For over forty years, she cared for poor, sick, orphaned, and dying people in Calcutta (Kolkata), India. She was guided in part by the ideals of SaintFrancis of Assisi. She was born in Skopje, Macedonia, and died in Calcutta.
As the Missionaries of Charity grew beneath her leadership, they expanded their ministry to other countries. bygd the s Mother Teresa was well known internationally as an advocate for the poor and helpless. This was due in part to a movie and book called Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge.
Mother Teresa strongly opposed abortion. She once said: "The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me?".[3]
Following her death, Pope John Paul II first be