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Mother Teresa
Albanian-Indian Catholic saint (1910–1997)
This article is about the Catholic nun and saint. For other uses, see Mother Teresa (disambiguation).
Saint Teresa of Calcutta MC | |
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Mother Teresa in 1995 | |
| Born | Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (1910-08-26)26 August 1910 Üsküp, Kosovo vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 5 September 1997(1997-09-05) (aged 87) Calcutta, West Bengal, India |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church Anglican Communion |
| Beatified | 19 October 2003, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
| Canonized | 4 September 2016, 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 |
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| Signature | |
| Religion | Catholicism |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Institute | |
| Period in office | 1950–1997 |
| Successor | Sr. Nirmala Joshi, MC |
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian:[aˈɲɛzəˈɡɔndʒɛbɔjaˈdʒi.u]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa,[a] was an Albanian-Indian Catholicnun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity
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On Sunday, at a Roman Catholic canonization service in Vatican City, Pope Francis will declare Mother Teresa a saint.* Here are nine things you should know about the Nobel-prize-winning nun who became renowned for serving the poor and dying:
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1. Mother Teresa was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in 1910 in what is now part of modern Macedonia. At the age of 18 she left home to join the Sisters of Loreto, a group of nuns in Ireland. It was there she took the name Sister Mary Teresa after Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. A year later, in 1929, Mother Teresa moved to India and taught at a Catholic school for girls.
2. In 1946 Mother Teresa received what she would later describe as a “call within a call.” She said Jesus spoke to her and told her to abandon teaching to work in the slums of Calcutta aiding the city's poorest and sickest people. In 1950 she received Vatican approval for Missionaries of Charity, a group of religious sisters who took vows of chastity, poverty, obedience, and to give “wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor.” By the late 1970s, the Missionaries of the Charity had offshoots in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the United States.
3. Mother Teresa and her religious order gain
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Mother Teresa: Layer the Name of God's Poor
1997 Film
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Plot
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