PEACE DAY AT SCHOOL

MOTHER TERESA BIOGRAPHY.

Mother Teresa was the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity,a Roman Catholic 
congregation ot women dedicated to helping the poor

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Baptized on August 27th,1910.In Skopje,Macedonia,Mother Teresa taught in India for 17 years 
before she experienced her 1946 "call within a call"to devote herself to caring for the sick and poor.Her order established a hospice; centers for the blind aged and disabled; and a leper colony.In 1979 she received the Nobel Peace Prize
for her humanitarian work.She died in September 1977 and was beatified in October 2003.In December 2015,Pope Francis recognized a second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa,clearing the way for her to be canonized as a saint in 2016.