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Mother Teresa
Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary (1910–1997)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 26 August 1910
- Died
- 5 September 1997
- Place of birth
- Skopje
- Place of death
- Kolkata
- Sex or gender
- female
- Father
- Nikollë Bojaxhiu
- Occupation
- religious sister, missionary, nun, founder of Catholic religious community, Christian nun, musician, librettist
- Position held
- superior general
- Citizenship
- Albania, India, Ottoman Empire, Dominion of India
- Native language
- Albanian
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Awards
- Ramon Magsaysay Award, Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding, Pacem in Terris Award, Balzan Prize, Nobel Peace Prize, Bharat Ratna, Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia, Presidential Medal of Freedom, honorary doctorate at the Laval University, honorary citizen of Zagreb, UNESCO Prize for Peace Education, honorary citizen of the United States
- birth name
- Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
- canonization status
- blessed, canonized saint
- cause of death
- heart failure
- described by source
- Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century, Biographical dictionary of Christian missions
- feast day
- September 5
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in kana
- マザー・テレサ
- name in native language
- Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
- permanent duplicated item
- Q23059755
- place of burial
- Mother House Of The Missionaries Of Charity
- religious name
- Teresa
- religious order
- Missionaries of Charity
- residence
- Skopje, Rathfarnham, Kolkata
- topic's main category
- Category:Mother Teresa
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