Mother Teresa - A Biography -

She began her religious life with the Sisters of Loreto in Ireland and India, teaching for two decades.

Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Ottoman Empire (now North Macedonia) on August 26, 1910. Mother Teresa - A Biography

In 1950, with Vatican approval, she founded the Missionaries of Charity to attend to the "dying and diseased". She began her religious life with the Sisters

The focus was to provide care and dignity to those rejected by society, including lepers, the hungry, and orphans. 1910. In 1950

In 1946, while traveling to Darjeeling, she felt a calling to leave the convent and live among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Founding the Missionaries of Charity