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Mother Teresa's given name was Anjezë Gonxhe (or Gonxha) [11] Bojaxhiu (Anjezë is a cognate of Agnes; Gonxhe means "flower bud" in Albanian). [12] She was born on 26 August 1910 into a Kosovar Albanian family [13] [14] [15] in Skopje, Ottoman Empire (now the capital of North Macedonia). [16] [17] She was baptised in Skopje the day after her ...
In the early 1900s, he married Dranafile Bernai with whom he had three children: Aga (b. 1905), Lazar (b. 1908), and Agnes (b. 1910), with the latter becoming later better known as Mother Teresa. Nikollë Bojaxhiu's company constructed the city's first theater and part of the railway line that connected Skopje with the region of Kosovo. [12]
Previously married to Catalina del Peso y Henao, with whom he had three children, in 1509, Sánchez de Cepeda married Teresa's mother, Beatriz de Ahumada y Cuevas, in Gotarrendura. [7] A brother, Lorenzo de Cepeda y Ahumada, was the father of Teresa de Ahumada. [8] Teresa's mother brought her up as a dedicated Christian.
In an American culture increasingly driven by “The Self”, Mother Teresa’s unrelenting selflessness offers us an alternative model for living our lives.
Pope Francis proclaimed Mother Teresa of Calcutta a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday, 19 years after her death.
Mother Teresa -- a world-renowned nun who was also known as the Saint of the Gutters -- died at age 87 in India
Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart (1747–1770), an Italian Discalced Carmelite; Theresa of Saint Augustine (1752–1794), Discalced Carmelite and martyr; Thérèse Couderc (1805–1885), co-founder of the Sisters of the Cenacle; Maria Teresa of St. Joseph (1855–1938), founder of the Carmelite Daughters of the Divine Heart of Jesus
Sisters belonging to Missionaries of Charity in their attire of traditional white sari with blue border.. The Missionaries of Charity (Latin: Congregatio Missionariarum a Caritate) is a Catholic centralised religious institute of consecrated life of Pontifical Right for women [3] established in 1950 by Mother Teresa, now known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta.