Biographical Detail
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Born in Skopje, Macedonia, August 26th,
1910 and baptized Anges Gonxha
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Enters IBVM at age 18 and chooses the na=
me
Sister Teresa; assigned to Calcutta to teach English at all girls’
school
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Sept. 10, 1947 – “call withi=
n a
call” a series of interior conversations with Jesus who urges her=
to
alleviate his thirst for souls by serving the poorest of the poor
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1950 begins her life work as Missionarie=
s of
Charity care for Calcutta’s dying destitute and slum dwellers; op=
ens
motherhouse, Nirmal Hriday (house of the pure of hear=
t)