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She was born in Skopje, a former city of Albania, now part of the Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
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His father died, and his mother took the reins of the family by putting a business in order to continue with the education of their children.
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At age 18, he entered the order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto of India, based in Ireland. There he received the name of Sister Maria Teresa (by Saint Teresa of Lisieux).
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She started his journey to India, arrived in Calcutta, and began his novitiate.
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I performed his vows of poverty, chastity and obedience as a nun.
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Sister Teresa made her perpetual profession, then, as she said herself, in "wife of Jesus" for "all eternity." From that moment on she was called Mother Teresa. For 20 years I taught at Santa Maria College in Calcutta, India.
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After God's call, he put himself at the service of the poorest.
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She left the convent, carrying a white sari decorated with blue margins substituting the habit of Loreto. His new congregation was called Missionaries of Charity.
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She was trained as a nurse for three months in Patna with the medical Missionary Sisters of North America and began helping people who were sick with leprosy.
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She inaugurated the first home for the dying in Calcutta.
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She won the award, "Padma Shiri", granted by the Indian government.
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Pope Paul VI placed the congregation of the Missionaries of Charity under the control of the papacy and I authorized mother Teresa to expand the religious order in other countries.
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She won the "Jawaharlal Nehru Award", for International understanding.
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She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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She founded the Missionary Fathers of charity.
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An Indian citizen wrote his official biography.
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She received the "Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana" award
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She received the artistic award "Dayawati Modi".
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She resigned as chief of the Missionaries of Charity. She died in Calcutta at 87 years old. The government of India granted him the honor of holding a state funeral and his body was buried in the mother house of the Missionaries of Charity. His grave quickly became a place of pilgrimage and prayer.
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Mother Teresa was beatified by Pope John Paul II.
