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Mother Teresa of Calcutta was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Ottoman Empire (now in Macedonia), on August 27, 1910, to Albanian parents. She was one of three children, one boy and two girls. At the age of eighteen, she volunteered for Roman Catholic missionary work and went to Ireland, where she joined the Loreto nuns. From there, she was sent to India to work first as a geography teacher and then as principal at St. Mary’s High School in Calcutta. In 1948, she became an Indian citizen and received permission to work in the Calcutta slums. To prepare, she undertook intensive nursing training for three months with the American Medical Missionary Sisters. |
