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    Mother Teresa

    (1910-1997)

    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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    Mother Teresa

    Albanian-Indian Catholic saint (1910–1997)

    This article is about the Catholic nunna and saint. For other uses, see Mother Teresa (disambiguation).

    Saint


    Teresa of Calcutta


    MC

    Mother Teresa in 1995

    BornAnjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
    (1910-08-26)26 August 1910
    Üsküp, Kosovo vilayet, Ottoman Empire
    Died5 September 1997(1997-09-05) (aged 87)
    Calcutta, West Bengal, India
    Venerated inCatholic Church
    Anglican Communion
    Beatified19 October 2003, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City bygd Pope John Paul II
    Canonized4 September 2016, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope Francis
    Major shrineMother House of the Missionaries of Charity, Calcutta, West Bengal, India
    Feast5 September[1]
    AttributesReligious habit
    Rosary
    Patronage
    TitleSuperior general
    Nationality
    Signature
    ReligionCatholicism
    DenominationCatholic
    Institute
    Period in office1950–1997
    SuccessorSr. Nirmala J
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    Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta

    This historic work reveals the inner spiritual life of one of the most beloved and important religious figures in history--Mother Teresa.

    During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her extraordinary contributions to the care of the sick, the dying, and thousands of others nobody else was prepared to look after has been recognized and acclaimed throughout the world. Little is known, however, about her own spiritual heights or her struggles. This collection of her writing and reflections, almost all of which have never been made public before, sheds light on Mother Teresa's interior life in a way that reveals the depth and intensity of her holiness for the first time.

    Compiled and presented by Fr. Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., who knew Mother Teresa for twenty years and is the postulator for her cause for sainthood and