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Mother Teresa 1910–1997 Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu Albanian religious in India

MOTHER TERESA

From Encyclopedia of Nobel Laureates 1901-2017
Nationality: Indian b. 26 August 1910, Uskup (now Skopje), Ottoman Empire (now Republic of Macedonia); d. 5 September 1997, Calcutta, India For aiding India's poor Born Gonxha (Agnes) Bojaxhiu, a Yugoslavian of Albanian descent, she had never dreamed of becoming a nun until eighteen. As a child she was studious and hard working, spending every available hour at the church and showed early enthusiasm for foreign missions whenever her priest spoke of the Loreto order and its work in India. She eventually joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with mission in Calcutta. After a few months training in Dublin, she was sent to India where she took her initial vows as a nun in 1928. She served as novice for two years and chose the name Teresa in memory of Theresa of Avila and Theresa of Lisieux. From 1929 to 1948 she taught at St. Mary's School for girls run by the Sisters of Loreto. Watching the suffering and poverty in the slums outside her convent wall, her life was…
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From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
Yugoslavian founder. Born of Albanian parents in Skopje, she decided, while still at school, that she wanted to work as a missionary among the poor of Bengal. In 1929, as Sister Teresa, she joined the congregation of Loreto nuns in Calcutta and taught at their school for girls for nearly 20 years. …
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An Albanian Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity order in 1950. Born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, best known as Mother Teresa. Since her canonization in 2016 she known officially in the Catholic Church as St. Teresa of Calcutta. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. A controversial…
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Full text Article Mother Teresa (1910–1997)

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Also known as: Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu; Mother Teresa of Calcutta (b. 1910–d. 1997) Albanian Catholic missionary and humanitarian Small of stature but solid in fortitude, Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, Albania. The youngest of the children of Nikola and Dran Bojaxhiu, she was…
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One of the most highly respected women in the world, Mother Teresa was internationally known for her charitable work among the victims of poverty and neglect—particularly in the slums of Calcutta (now Kolkata), India. In 1979 she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her humanitarian…
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Nobel Prize for Peace, 1979. For her work among the poor and dying of India, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979. Pope Francis I canonized her on September 4, 2016, declaring her Saint Teresa of Calcutta. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a Roman Catholic nun who…
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Nationality: Indian b. 26 August 1910, Uskup (now Skopje), Ottoman Empire (now Republic of Macedonia); d. 5 September 1997, Calcutta, India For aiding India's poor Born Gonxha (Agnes) Bojaxhiu, a Yugoslavian of Albanian descent, she had never dreamed of becoming a nun until eighteen. As a child she…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(Saint Teresa of Calcutta), 1910–97, Roman Catholic missionary in India, winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, b. Skopje (now in Macedonia) as Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu. Of Albanian parentage, she joined the Sisters of Loreto in Ireland at 18 and soon left for India, where she became a nun and taught…
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