In 1950, Mother Teresa established the Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation that was initially dedicated to serving "the poorest of the poor" in the slums of Calcutta.
Mother Teresa is a Roman Catholic saint who was a Nobel laureate known for her missionary work with the poor in India. She founded the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to the poor, and she was canonized as a saint in 2016.
Mother Teresa was a person of profound prayer and deep love for her religious sisters and her students, and her twenty years in Loreto were filled with remarkable happiness.
Mother Teresa left a testament of unshakable faith, invincible hope and extraordinary charity. Her response to Jesus’ plea, “Come be My light,” made her a Missionary of Charity, a “mother to the poor,” a symbol of compassion to the world, and a living witness to the thirsting love of God.
Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic nun who won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for her work among the poorest of the world’s poor, died yesterday in Calcutta, India, where she had lived since her work...
Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to bring help to suffering humanity. Mother Teresa Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Full name: Mother Teresa Born: 26 August 1910, Uskup, Ottoman Empire (now Skopje, North Macedonia) Died: 5 September 1997, Calcutta, India Date awarded: 27 October 1979 Dedicating her life to the poor At the age of twelve, Agnes Gonxha ...
Nun and missionary Mother Teresa, known in the Catholic church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, devoted her life to caring for the sick and poor. Born in Macedonia to parents of Albanian-descent...