Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, honored in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, is an Albanian Indian Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje, then a member of Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she spent most of her life. In 1950 Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of over 4,500 nuns and operating in 133 countries in 2012. This church operates homes for people dying of HIV / AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis. It also operates soup kitchens, pharmacies, mobile clinics, counseling programs for children and families, as well as orphanages and schools. Members took vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, and also made a fourth oath - “serve the poorest of the poor with all their hearts”.
She was a Catholic nun named Anjeze Bojaxhiu who dedicated her life to caring for the sick and destitute. She spent the majority of her life in India, founding the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta in 1950 to offer hospices for persons suffering from AIDS, leprosy, and other ailments.
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