Mother Teresa: The Catholic Nun Who Cared for the Dying in Kolkata

Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, typically referred to as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in the Catholic Church, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (today the capital of North Macedonia), which was then part of the Ottoman Empire's Kosovo Vilayet. After eighteen years in Skopje, she went to Ireland and ultimately to India, where she spent the remainder of her life.

Teresa formed the Missionaries of Charity in the year 1950, a Roman Catholic spiritual order...