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Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26th, 1910.

When she was 12, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew what she had to do to spread the love of Christ. When she was 18 she left home and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. She was sent to India after a few months in Dublin, and on the 24th of May 1931, at age 21, she took her vows and became a nun. She taught at St Mary's Higschool in Calcutta until 1931, and then the issues of society such as poverty made an impression on her, and she got permission to leave by the covenant and devoted herself to helping the poor people in the slums of Calcutta. In 1950 she started the Missionaries of Charity, and then two years later the House for the Dying opened. The missionaries of charity then began work with lepers and in many disaster areas around the world. In 1971, Mother Teresa was awarded the Pope John Paul X XIII Peace Prize, and then, in 1979 the Nobel Peace Prize because she was civil and liked peace in the world even if they were a different religion to herself. She took them in and cared for them as if it was one of her own. Mother Teresa lived out this commandment because she only had one God and lived out his values, cared for everyone, and even from a young age she respected God and felt her call to do his work. Her work is still lived out today by the Missionaries of Charity, and now consists of over 4,500 sisters and works in over 133 countries. The missionaries care for those such as refugees, the mentally ill, abandoned/sick children and the poor and homeless. They now have 19 homes in Calcutta, where it began, that house homes for women, orphaned, poor and sick children and the dying.