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Mother Teresa
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Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and a Catholic saint.
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…missing in Indochina. In 1975, as Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces, he offered to return the medal, an offer not accepted by the Nobel Committee. Mother Teresa (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu) received the 1979 prize for "work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitutes a…
Mother Teresa in 1995
Memorial House of Mother Teresa in her native Skopje
Missionaries of Charity motherhouse in Calcutta
Missionaries of Charity in traditional saris