Photo Story: Prayer in in Kolkata, India to remember Mother Teresa’s birth
Nuns take part in a mass prayer near Mother’s tomb at Mother House on Mother Teresa’s 112th birth anniversary in Kolkata, India, 26 August 2022 .
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on 26 August 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia. She began her missionary work with the poor in Kolkata in 1948, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Mother Teresa was canonized as a saint by Pope Francis in 2016.
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