Mother Teresa Wiki, Awards, Facts, & Feast Day

26 August 2022

ABOUT

Real Name: Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu Nickname: Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Profession: Albanian Roman Catholic nun and missionary

Birth

Mother Teresa was born on 26 August 1910n Catholic nun and missionary

Death

Date of Death: 5 September 1997 Place of Death: Calcutta (now Kolkata), West Bengal, India

Why Is Famous

She founded the order, The Missionaries of Charity, to look after abandoned babies and to help the poorest of the poor, once saying that they "lived like animals but die like angels"

Education

Learned English at Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham, Ireland.

Family

Father: Nikollë Bojaxhiu (Albanian businessman, benefactor and politician Mother: Dranafile Bojaxhiu Brother: Lazar Bojaxhiu Sister: Aga Bojaxhiu

Family

Father: Nikollë Bojaxhiu (Albanian businessman, benefactor and politician Mother: Dranafile Bojaxhiu Brother: Lazar Bojaxhiu Sister: Aga Bojaxhiu

Nationality

Ottoman subject (1910–1912) Serbian subject (1912–1915) Bulgarian subject (1915–1918) Yugoslavian subject (1918–1943) Yugoslavian citizen (1943–1948) Indian citizen (1948–1997)

Awards

During her life, Mother Teresa receives more than 700 prizes, Main Awards # Nobel Prize : 1979 #bharat ratna :1980