GREAT LEADER: TERESA DE

CALCUTACarla Durán Tzompantzin

BIOGRAPHY Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born in

1910 in Skopje, then Albania and Macedonia today. He died on September 5, 1997 in his beloved Calcutta, India.

When she began the religious path she took the name of Teresa. She founded the Missionaries of Charity.

TOUGHTS She said of herself: "By blood, I

am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. As for faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. In regards to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus "

MOVEMENTS In 1950 Mother Teresa founded the

Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity, which was approved in 1965 by Pablo VI. The members of this congregation, to be added to the traditional vows of dedication to the "poorest of the poor", achieved rapid deployment in India and other nearly one hundred countries in the world, for its part, the founder mobilized against abortion and euthanasia, in line with the papal doctrine of Juan Pablo II

AWARDS In 1972 Mother Teresa was awarded

the Kennedy Foundation, and in 1979, the Nobel Peace Prize, whose prize money donated to the poor. In 1986 he was visited by John Paul II in Nirmal Hidray or House of the Pure Heart, which she founded in Calcutta and best known as the House of the Dying

FINAL DAYS After overcoming numerous ill

health, died on September 5, 1997 of a heart attack victim. Thousands of people from around the world gathered in India to dismiss the Saint of the Sewers. She was beatified in 2003 by Pope Juan Pablo II.