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Albania / India: Mother Theresa of Calcutta (1910-1997). Photo by Evert Odekerken (CC BY 2.5 License)

Albania / India: Mother Theresa of Calcutta (1910-1997). Photo by Evert Odekerken (CC BY 2.5 License)

Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was a Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries. Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.

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