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Mother Teresa in 1995 | |
Virgin | |
Born | Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (1910-08-26)26 August 1910 Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (present-day Skopje, North Macedonia) |
Died | 5 September 1997(1997-09-05) (aged 87) Calcutta, West Bengal, India |
Venerated in | Catholic Church |
Beatified | 19 October 2003, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
Canonized | 4 September 2016, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope Francis |
Major shrine | Mother House of the Missionaries of Charity, Calcutta, West Bengal, India |
Feast | 5 September |
Patronage |
Mary Teresa BojaxhiuMC (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa, was an Albanian Catholicnun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity.
Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, at the age of 18 she moved to Ireland and later to India, where she lived most of he