Mother Teresa

"Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta) passed away on this day in 1997, after a lifetime of service for the poorest of the poor.

Mother Teresa has made India proud by showing and proving to the world what one person's mission can achieve.

It was the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 that provided a momentum to Mother Teresa's work among the refugees.

According to a report aired by a private news channel, Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910 at Skopje in Maceodonia.

Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950, a religious congregation which had over 4,500 sisters and was active in 133 countries in 2012.

She followed her calling to become Mother Teresa, one who spent her life working to help the poorest of the poor.

Not being a fan meant that I was mightily relieved that it was Dr Martin Luther King Jr that American Bishop Michael Curry quoted in his powerful address at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, rather than Mother Teresa.

Born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje town (capital of the independent country of Macedonia now but then part of the Ottoman Empire - and then under Serb, Bulgarian and then Yugoslav rule during her early life) as Anjeze (or Agnes, more commonly) Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Mother Teresa was always religiously inclined.

I went to Mother Teresa's home and found the direction I've been searching for all these years.

Now known to the Catholic Church as St Teresa of Calcutta, Mother Teresa was actually born in the Republic of Macedonia in 1910 and died in Calcutta in 1997 aged 87.

Mother Teresa: A real life lived well MOTHER Teresa of Calcutta was declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Francis on Sunday.

Upon making her final vows, she chose the title of 'Mother' and since then, it is as 'Mother Teresa' that the world has come to know about Skopje's most famous daughter.