St Teresa of Calcutta
Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, 1910 – 1997), or St Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (now the capital of North Macedonia), she moved to Ireland and then to India where she lived most of her life. In 1950, she founded the Missionaries of Charity, which grew to over 4,500 sisters and projects in 133 countries. She described their work as caring for “the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for, people that have become a burden to society and are shunned by everyone".
Mother Teresa was admired for her charitable work and received a number of honours including the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Ronald Reagan and the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize.
In 2003, Pope John Paul II took the first step toward the canonisation of Mother Teresa. In 2016, Mother Teresa was declared a saint by Pope Francis.
The feast day of St Teresa of Calcutta, or Mother Teresa, is 5 September, the anniversary of her death.
By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus.
Mother Teresa 1995
Mother Teresa pray for us.
Mother Teresa information at the Vatican
Mother Teresa information at the Nobel Prize organisation