Teresa, Mother, Saint, 1910-1997
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Mother Teresa Bojaxhiu, born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje, then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire and lived most of her life in Kolkata, India. In 1950, she founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation. Teresa received a number of honors, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She was canonised on 4 September 2016, and the anniversary of her death (5 September) is her feast day.
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associatedWith | Adams, Eddie, 1933-2004 |
associatedWith | Blouin, Br. Francis |
associatedWith | Briggs, Jim. |
memberOf | Catholic Church |
associatedWith | Dear, John, 1959- |
associatedWith | Egan, Eileen. |
associatedWith | Isler, William H. |
associatedWith | Klempner, Mark. |
associatedWith | Loyola Marymount University. |
associatedWith | Manhattan College. |
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Birth 1910-08-27
Death 1997-09-05
Indians (India)
English
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Teresa, Mother, Saint, 1910-1997
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