Mother Teresa - We have not come into the world to be numbered; we

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.

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Teresa, Mother. No Greater Love. Edited by Becky Benenate and Joseph Durepos, New World Library, 1997, p. 25.

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About the Author

Mother Teresa

Born: August 26, 1910
Died: September 5, 1997
Nationality: Albanian
Profession: Missionary, Humanitarian, Nun

Biography

Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, honoured in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (now the capital of North Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.

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