Saint Teresa
MOTHER TERESA was born in Skopje (present-day Macedonia) in 1910, and joined the Sisters of Loreto in Dublin in 1928. She left the Loreto order in 1948 to begin the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta (Kolkata). Her service to the poorest of the poor became her life's work. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She died in 1997, was beatified in 2003, and canonized on September 4th, 2016.
MOTHER TERESA was born in Skopje (present-day Macedonia) in 1910, and joined the Sisters of Loreto in Dublin in 1928. She left the Loreto order in 1948 to begin the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta (Kolkata). Her service to the poorest of the poor became her life's work. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She died in 1997, was beatified in 2003, and canonized on September 4th, 2016. See less
