Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, Albania on August 26, 1910.Mother Teresa of Calcutta's real name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Her father's name was Nikola and her mother's name was Dranafile.
Agnes' family was economically prosperous and characterized by helping the poor. Her father is thought to have been poisoned because of his political views when she was only 9 years old.
In 1928, at the age of 18, the young woman who would become Mother Teresa joined the missionary sisters of Loreto in Ireland. That same year she would embark to India where the young nun would be moved by the vision of terrible misery.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta made India her home for the last sixty-nine years of her life, and it is precisely in Calcutta that the Mother had the Seat of the Missionaries of Charity.
Mother Teresa spoke five languages: --English, Albanian, Serbo-Croatian, Bengali and Hindi.
In her youth Mother Teresa taught catechism at home, had published articles in a local newspaper and wrote poems.
Mother Teresa, besides advocating for the poor, was a great fighter against abortion.
Mother Teresa was diagnosed with heart problems in 1974, which she kept as secretive as possible because she did not want anything to get in the way of her continued hard work on behalf of the poor.
Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Pope John Paul II visited the "House of the Immaculate Heart" in Calcutta on February 4, 1986. Something that filled Mother Teresa with emotion.
At the time of Mother Teresa's death, her missionaries of charity worked in 123 countries.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta died in September 1997 at the age of 87.
In 2003 she was beatified by Pope John Paul II.
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