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Mother Teresa's given name was Anjezë Gonxhe (or Gonxha) [8] Bojaxhiu (Anjezë is a cognate of Agnes; Gonxhe means "flower bud" in Albanian). [9] She was born on 26 August 1910 into a Kosovar Albanian family [10] [11] [12] in Skopje, Ottoman Empire (now the capital of North Macedonia). [13] [14] She was baptised in Skopje the day after her ...
Public image of Mother Teresa. Catholic nun and missionary Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, commonly known as Mother Teresa and known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta since 2016, has a complicated public image. She has been widely admired by many for her charitable work, which led to her being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for work undertaken in the ...
Teresa. Teresa (also Theresa, Therese; French: Thérèse) is a feminine given name. It originates in the Iberian Peninsula in late antiquity. Its derivation is uncertain, it may be derived from Greek θερίζω ( therízō) "to harvest or reap", or from θέρος ( theros) "summer". It is first recorded in the form Therasia, the name of ...
Mother Teresa -- a world-renowned nun who was also known as the Saint of the Gutters -- died at age 87 in India
Thérèse of Lisieux. Therese of Lisieux OCD ( French: Thérèse de Lisieux [teʁɛz də lizjø]; born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin; 2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), religious name Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face ( Thérèse de l'Enfant Jésus et de la Sainte Face ), was a French Discalced Carmelite who is widely ...
Kalighat, the Home of the Pure Heart ( Nirmal Hriday) [1] (formerly Mother Teresa's Kalighat Home for the Dying Destitutes) is a hospice for the sick, destitute and the dying established by St. Mother Teresa [2] [3] in Kalighat, Kolkata, India. Before Mother Teresa sought permission to use it, the building was an old abandoned Hindu temple to ...
Mother Teresa is the only woman among the list of recipients. [ 6] Sri Aurobindo, the Indian poet, philosopher, nationalist and developer of Integral yoga, was nominated unsuccessfully for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1943 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950. [ 7][ 8] On 1 December 1999, the Norwegian Nobel Committee confirmed that ...
Saints named Theresa include: Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582), or Teresa of Jesus, Spaniard, founder of the Discalced Carmelites, and Doctor of the Church. 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 ...