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On September 5, 1997, Mother Teresa, the winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize died at her convent in Calcutta, India at age 87. She was one of the best known and admired women on earth.
She was born in Macedonia as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 27, 1910. At 18 she left home and entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Loretto, an Irish order operating in the Indian state of Bengal. She completed her training in Darjeeling, about 300 miles north of Calcutta, and took her vows in 1931. She chose the name Teresa after...