Mother Teresa, Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu

Mother Teresa, Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (born as Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu), (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), a Albanian citizen, commonly known as Mother Teresa and honoured in the Catholic Church as “Saint Teresa of Calcutta”, was an AlbanianIndian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in “Skopje” (now the capital of North Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life. In 1950, Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation that had over 4,500 nuns and was active in 133 countries. The congregation manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis. It also runs soup kitchens, dispensaries, mobile clinics, children's and family counselling programmes, as well as orphanages and schools. Teresa received a number of honors, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She was canonised on 4 September 2016, and the anniversary of her death (5 September) is her feast day. Her authorized biography was written byNavin Chawla and published in 1992, and she has been the subject offilms and other books. On 6 September 2017, Teresa and St. Francis Xavier were named co-patrons of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta.