Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa , in full St. Teresa of Calcutta , also called St. Mother Teresa , original name Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu , (baptized August 27, 1910, Skopje , Macedonia, Ottoman Empire [now in Republic of North Macedonia]—died September 5, 1997, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India; canonized September 4, 2016; feast day September 5), founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity , a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to the poor, particularly to the destitute of India . She was the recipient of numerous honours, including the 1979 Nobel Prize for Peace. The daughter of an ethnic Albanian grocer, she went to Ireland in 1928 to join the Sisters of Loreto at the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and sailed only six weeks later to India as a teacher. She taught for 17 years at the order’s school in Calcutta ( Kolkata ). ❤❤❤❤❤ In 1946 Sister Teresa experienced...