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Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Founder of Missionaries of Charity, teacher, social worker, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; b. Aug. 26, , Shkup, Albania, in the Ottoman Empire (now Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia); d.
Madre teresa di calcutta biography of william
Sept. 5, , Calcutta, India. Baptized Gonxha (in English, Agnes) Bojaxhiu, she was one of five children of a middle-class family. Her father Nikola, a grocer, died in , and her mother, Dronda, in At the age of 18, Gonxha joined the Sisters of Loreto with the intention of serving in the missions.
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En route to India she spent two months in Ireland, studying English. When she entered the novitiate in at Darjeeling in the foothills of the Himalayas, she became known as Sister Teresa. Professed in , she was sent to teach at St Mary's School for Girls in Calcutta.
On Sept. 10, , while riding the train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa experienced "a second calling,"a vocation to serve the poor of Calcutta. In August , she left the sisters of Loreto with the blessing of her