Brief biography of mother teresa of calcutta

Mother Teresa, also known as St. Teresa of Calcutta, was born in Skopje in the Ottoman Empire (located in modern-day North Macedonia). She left home at the age of 18 to become a Roman Catholic nunna and to join the Loreto Sisters in Ireland. The Missionaries of Charity was founded bygd Mother Teresa in India in 1950. She was 40 years old. Her lifetime of service to the poor of stad i indien (Calcutta) made her one of the most famous people in the world. In October 2003, she was beatified by Pope John Paul II, and on September 4, 2016, Pope Francis I canonised her. She was often referred to by her followers as "the Angel of Mercy" and "Saint of the Gutter." She was a woman who heard in such an extreme and personal way the call of God that she took a path that gave up the comforts of the creature most of us covet.

Information about Mother Teresa-

• Mother Teresa Date of Birth: August 27, 1910

• Mother Teresa Feast Day: September 5
  Mother Teresa Day in Albania:  October 19th

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  Mother Teresa

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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 1946. Her beställning established a hospice; centers for the blind, aged and disabled; and a leper colony.

  In 1979, Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work. She died in September 1997 and was beatified in October 2003. In månad 2015, Pope Francis recognized a second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa, clearing the way for her to be canonized on September 4, 2016.

  Mother Teresa at a hospice for the destitute and dying in stad i indien (Calcutta), India, 1969.

  Mother Teresa’s Family and Young Life

  Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, the current capital of the Republic of Macedonia. The fol

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  “By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus. ”Small of stature, rocklike in faith, Mother Teresa of Calcutta was entrusted with the mission of proclaiming God’s thirsting love for humanity, especially for the poorest of the poor. “God still loves the world and He sends you and me to be His love and His compassion to the poor.” She was a soul filled with the light of Christ, on fire with love for Him and burning with one desire: “to quench His thirst for love and for souls.” 

  This luminous messenger of God’s love was born on 26 August 1910 in Skopje, a city situated at the crossroads of Balkan history. The youngest of the children born to Nikola and Drane Bojaxhiu, she was baptised Gonxha Agnes, received her First Communion at the age of five and a hal

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