Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu) was born of Albanian parents in Skopje in 1910. Journeying as a missionary to India, she labored many years as a teacher before hearing the “call within the call,” “to give up all and follow Him into the slums—to serve Him in the poorest of the poor,” and so satiate the thirst of Jesus for love and the salvation of souls by founding the Missionaries of Charity. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 19 October 2003, and was canonized by Pope Francis on 4 September 2016.
Her legacy lives on today, across the globe, through the tireless work of the Missionaries of Charity.
Together with the universal Church, we the Missionaries of Charity mourn the death of this great Pope, Pope Francis. Pope Francis was a man of evangelical vision. The way he made the Church re-focus its attention on the marginalized...
Read more >>It has been brought to our attention that various organizations are using the name, words and image of Mother Teresa as well as the photos of the Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity and their centers to claim or simulate their...
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