Mother Teresa of Kolkata

Mother Teresa of Kolkata (1910 - 1997)In a century crowded with statesmen, warriors, dictators and the cult of celebrity, one woman won not only global notoriety and unbounded admiration for the unlikeliest of achievements. She waded into the margins of society and fed the hungry, touched the untouchables and raised humanity’s collective consciousness for the suffering of millions. She was a diminutive, shy Albanian nun known as Mother Teresa of Kolkata.  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu was born in Skopje (modern Macedonia) in 1910 to an Albanian Catholic family. As a young girl, Anjezë was spiritually thoughtful rather than precociously pious and by her teens had expressed a desire to become a missionary. In 1928, she packed her bags and set off for Ireland where she entered the novitiate of the Sisters of Loreto, a congregation of religious founded in the 16th century and devoted to the education of young women. Anjezë took the name of St. Thérèse of Lisieux for her name in religion but used