Birth of Agnès Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Mother Teresa’s real name, in Skopje the capital of Kosovo. She is younger than her brothers: Nikola and Drane. Her well-to-do family of Albanian origin is dedicated to the poor, it gives them charity and receives them at its own home.

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Her father dies when she is only 9. Her family is in bad circumstances, it's her eldest brother Drane to look after his brothers and sisters. He will influence Agnès’ vocation.

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At the age of 12, she begins to feel the need to devote herself to God.

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She goes to Calcutta, India, where she continues to study English for two years and also learn Bengali and Hindi.

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In Darjeeling convent she takes her first religious vows as a noun and she gets the name Mother Teresa choosing the patronage of Thérèse de Lisieux. From 1931 to 1937 she teaches geography at St Mary’s High School run by Loreto convent in Calcutta.

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Mother Teresa takes her solemn vows. She continues to teach at the little school in Calcutta of whom she will become headmistress in 1944.

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During her trip from Calcutta to Darjeeling she experiences “the call within the call”, that is the vocation to devote her life to the poor in slums, so she gets the permission to leave the “Sisters of Loreto” order.

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Mother Teresa founds the "Missionaries of Charity " order, a congregation devoted to the poorest which develops in Calcutta and the rest of India between 1950 and 1960.

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She wins the Nobel Peace Prize accepting the award “in the name of God’s poor”

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Opening of her first Missionaries of Charity home for AIDS patients in New York.

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She goes to hospital in 1988 and 1989, so she decides to resign her position as head of the Missionaries of Charity, but she is re-elected head of the order.

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Her state of health still worsens so she is forced to step down from the Missionaries of Charity.

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Mother Teresa dies and people hold a wake over her body for a day at “Mother House” before her burial attended by dozen political leaders from all over the world. Her body is buried in a simple grave and the sentence she mostly loved “Love each other as I have loved you” is carved into its marble.

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