Mother Teresa — born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on 26th August 1910 in Skopje — was a Roman Catholic nun and missionary who became one of the most celebrated humanitarians in history. In 1950 she founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, an organisation devoted to caring for the poorest of the poor.
She dedicated her life to serving the sick, the dying, the destitute and the forgotten. The Missionaries of Charity grew from a small group of sisters in Calcutta to a worldwide organisation operating in over 130 countries, running schools, orphanages, hospices and homes for the dying.
She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She passed away on 5th September 1997, aged 87. In September 2016 she was canonised as Saint Teresa of Calcutta by Pope Francis in a ceremony at the Vatican — one of the fastest canonisations in Catholic Church history.