User:Aplank~enwiki/Mother Teresa
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is my revision of Adam Carr's revision
Mother Teresa
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, known for most of her life as Mother Teresa, (August 26 1910 - September 5 1997), Catholic nun and founder of the Missionaries of Charity, became a figure of veneration within the Catholic church, and admiration beyond it, for her work among the poor of Calcutta. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. But Teresa also became the subject of sustained attacks from some writers, who accused her of misappropriation of funds and exploiting the poor for her own self-promotion. Partly in response to these attacks, she was beatified by Pope John Paul II in October 2003.
Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu was born in Uskub, a town in the Ottoman province of Kosovo (now Skopje in the Republic of Macedonia), where her father was a successful contractor. It is usually stated that her parents, Nikolla and Dranafila Bojaxhiu, were Albanian, but it has been suggested that her father may have been of Vlach descent. Her parents were unusual in being Catholics, since most Albanians are either Muslims or Orthodox Christians.