Summary
A Brief Biography of Mother Teresa's Life.
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(1910 � 1997)
Mother Teresa of Calcutta was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910 in Skopje, Yugoslavia. She joined the Sisters of Loreto in 1928 taking the name �Teresa� after St. Teresa of Lesiux, patroness of Missionaries.
In 1948, she came across a half-dead woman lying in front of a Calcutta hospital. She stayed with the woman until she died. From that point on, she dedicated the majority of her life to helping the poorest of the poor in India, thus gaining her the name �Saint of the Gutters.�
She founded an order of nuns called the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India dedicated to serving the poor. Almost 50 years later, the Missionaries of Charity have grown from 12 sisters in India to over 4,000 in 517 missions throughout 100 countries worldwide. For over 50 years, she worked selflesssly helping the poor. That devotion towards the poor won her respect throughout the world and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
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