Editor’s note: This piece was posted originally on August 29, 2016, leading up to the September 6, 2016, canonization of Mother Teresa. It is reposted here on the tenth anniversary of that event.
Pope Francis will canonize Mother Teresa (1910-1997) on Sunday, September 4. In 2015, the Vatican recognized the miraculous healing through her intercession of a Brazilian man with multiple brain abscesses, the second miracle required to declare her a saint.
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born in Skopje, now the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. She grew up in a devout, middle-class Catholic home. From a young age, she was taught by her mother, Drana, to have compassion for the poor. At age 18, she entered the Sisters of Loreto in Ireland and took the name “Teresa.” In 1937, she professed her final vows.
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