Mother.Terresa was born in 1910 at Skopje, a small village in
Yugoslavia. Her earlier name was Agene's. At the age of eighteen she
decided to become a nun. With that end in view, she came to India in
1928 and took Indian citizenship. She started her life as a teacher in a
convent school in Calcutta, but soon the mother in her cried for the
suffering of the poor and the down-trodden. Her activities has now been
spread all over the world. In 1979 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for
peace. This great lady died on 5th sept, 1997. The whole world is
shocked at her death. 
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