Mother Teresa (1910-1997) was a nun, who devoted her life to serving the poor. She spent many years in Calcutta, India where she founded the Missionaries of Charity, it devoted to helping to people in great need. In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and has become a symbol of charitable selfless work. She was beatified in 2003, the first step on the path to sainthood, within the Catholic church.

Mother Teresa was born, 1910, in Skopje, capital of the Republic of Macedonia. But at a young age she started work to be a nun and helping the poor. At the age of 18 she joined a group of nuns in Ireland. After a few months of training, with the Sisters, she traveled to India. She took her formal religious vows in 1931.

On her arrival in India, she started working as a teacher, however the widespread poverty of Calcutta made a deep impression on her; and this made her to work on new order called “The Missionaries of Charity”. The primary objective of this mission was to look after people, who nobody else was prepared to look after. Mother Teresa felt that serving others was a key principle of the teachings of Jesus Christ.