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A Short Biography of Mother Teresa

Author Name:

Mother Teresa

Born As:

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu

Other Names:

Mother Teresa

Born:

26 Aug 1910

Died:

5 Sep 1997




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Humanitarian, missionary and theologian                          
                                              
Mother Nikola and Father Drane Bojaxhiu
Left home at age 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto as a missionary. She never saw her family again.                                              
Pope John XXIII Peace Prize - 1971. First recipient
Templeton Prize - 1973. First recipient
Nobel Prize in Peace - 1979
Honorary US citizen - 1996                                              
The Archbishop of Calcutta, Henry Sebastian D'Souza, said he ordered a priest to perform an exorcism on Mother Teresa with her permission when she was first hospitalized with cardiac problems because he thought she may be under attack by the devil.