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Tag: Who was Teresa of Calcutta?
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Teresa of Calcutta
St Teresa (1910 – 1997) was born in Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia, to Albanian parents. Following her father’s death at 8yrs, she was raised by her mother, a Roman Catholic. At 18, she joined the Sisters of Loreto and briefly studied English at Loreto Abbey, Ireland. In 1929, she went to Loreto Convent School…