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one of the poorest cities in the world - Calcutta, India
- a European woman devoted her life to helping the poor
and the needy. Mother Teresa, an Albanian nun, led the
Missionaries of Charity. In the beginning they had nothing
and went around helping as many people as they could.
But, today, they receive a lot of donations from around
the world. |
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Mother Teresa was bornin
Albania in 1910 and was called Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu.
Her father was a businessman and they were quite wealthy.
When she was nine her father died and her family were
poor. This experience helped her when she went to Calcutta.
She took her name from St. Teresa of Avila, patroness
of the Missionaries. |
| In 1948, Mother Teresa
came across a half-dead woman lying in front of a Calcutta
hospital. She stayed until the woman died. From then
on, she worked with the poorest of the poor in Calcutta.
She was called the "Saint of the Gutters" |
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50 years after
the founding of her order, the Missionaries of Charity
have grown from 12 sisters in India to over 3,000 in
517 missions all over the world. |
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