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. Mother Teresa: A Life of Service to the Poor Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun and missionary who founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to helping the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying. She was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Ottoman Empire (now North Macedonia) on August 26, 1910. She joined the Sisters of Loreto in 1928 and was sent to India in 1929. In 1946, she experienced a "call within a call" to leave the convent and work among the poor in the slums of Calcutta. She founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950 and went on to open homes for the dying, orphanages, and leprosy clinics all over the world. Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work with the poor. She was canonized as a saint by Pope Francis in 2016. Mother Teresa's work was not without controversy. Some critics accused her of promoting suffering and of not providing adequate medical care to the poor. However, h