Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa (1910–1997), born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Skopje (in present-day North Macedonia), was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who spent 45 years serving the poorest and most marginalized in Kolkata, India. She founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950, which grew to operate over 4,500 schools, hospices, and homes for people living with leprosy, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis across 130 countries. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and was canonized by Pope Francis in September 2016. Her work gave rise to the modern hospice movement's understanding that dying with dignity is as important as living with dignity. Mother Teresa lived 1910 – 1997.