Not love in words but in deeds

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Mother Teresa received the Nobel price in 1979, she was beatified on 19 October 2003 by Pope John Paul II and canonised by Pope Francis on 4 September 2016. The anniversary of her death, 5 September (1997), is her feast day. Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu) was born on 26 August 1910 into a Kosovar Albanian family in Skopje, Ottoman Empire (now the capital of North Macedonia). She was the youngest child of Nikollë and Dranafile Bojaxhiu (Bernai).

Her father was a cultured man who spoke Turkish, Italian, Albanian, French and Serbian; he died suddenly in 1919. Her mother Drana (1889-1918) had noble origins and she had faith and charity. After her husband’s death she had to face a very difficult economic situation and to take care of three children and she educated them in faith. (continue)

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