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Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒi.u]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa, [a] was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and is a Catholic saint. [6] [7] [8] Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, [b] she was raised in a devoutly ...
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, the daughter of an ethnic Albanian grocer. She went to Ireland in 1928 to join the Sisters of Loretto at the Institute of the and sailed six weeks later to , where she taught for 17 years at the order’s school in Calcutta (. Mother Teresa (baptized August 27, 1910, Skopje, Macedonia, Ottoman ...
Jul 9, 2017 · Future Mother Teresa of Calcutta with her sister Aga (L), and brother Lazar. Agnes surrounded by her classmates. Agnes poses here with her grandmother. Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu with her sister Aga, in Macedonian traditional costume. At the center, behind the priest in black, stands the future Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Agnes at the age of 18.
Feb 26, 2024 · Mother Teresa was an Albanian‑Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to helping the poor.
The young Albanian girl, Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu, who would go on to become Mother Teresa of Calcutta , on the day of her confirmation. On the right, her mother Drane Bojaxhiu. (Corbis via Getty Images)
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born on 26th august 1910, at the 14 Pop Kochina Street, at what is now main square Macedonia. She was the youngest child in the family. She had an oldest sister Aga and older brother Lazar. Aga was born in 1904, and Lazar in 1907. Information on her father’s origin remains vague.
Sep 5, 1997 · Mother Teresa's devotional work among the poor and dying of India won her the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979. She is also known as the founder of the only Catholic religious order still growing in membership. Early life Mother Teresa of Calcutta was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910. ...
The remarkable woman who would be known as Mother Teresa began life named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, she was the youngest child born to Nikola and Drane Bojaxhiu. Receiving her First Communion at the age of five, she was confirmed in November 1916. Her father died while she was only eight years old leaving her ...
Jul 1, 2023 · Mother Teresa as a young woman with her parents in Albania While much of Mother Teresa’s charitable work began in India, she considered herself to have multiple nationalities. Her family was of Albanian descent, and she was born in Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Skopje, which, at the time of her birth, was in the Ottoman Empire in 1910. Following ...
Macedonia/India: Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (1910-1997, left), better known as 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta' (Kolkata) as a young girl in Albanian costume, Skopje, 1920s. Close-up of Albanian nun and missionary Mother Teresa as she holds in an infant in a cot at one of her missions for orphaned children, Calcutta ,...
