Mother Teresa was born on August
26, 1910, in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (then Kosovo Vilayet in the Ottoman
Empire). Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was the youngest child in the family of Nikolle
and Dranafile Bojaxhiu. Her parents were Catholics.
Nikolle Bojaxhiu died in 1919 when Agnes was eight
years old. Mother and children were left alone.
When girl was twelve years old she decided to go to
India as nun and care about poor people in that country.
In 1928, Agnes Gronxha Bojaxhiu went to Ireland and
joined the Sisters of Loreto. Three
years later she took name Teresa and went to Calcutta. Nun taught geography in
that place. On September 10, 1946, she began to help poor people in India! Two
years later her community began to build hospitals and schools for ill and poor
people.
So during many years Mother Teresa cared
about the poor. She won Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. This nun met many famous
people in her life.
She died on September 5, 1997,
in
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