Agnes Gonxhas Bojaxhin dearly known as Mother Teresa all over the world was a symbol of love and dedication for humanity . She was born on August 2 , AD . 1910 in a small village Skopje in Yugoslavia . She was called Agnes in her childhood . It was the name she took from her mother who was a pious lady . Her father was a kind and charitable man . She had her early education from the local school Sacred Heart Church . In 1928 she came to Calcutta with a Missionary Organisation . Now she joined Loreto Convent at Entally as a Geography teacher . Soon she started her charitable mission and began to work in the slum areas all around . When she was working for the Mission in Kolkata she came in close contact with the poor and the distressed . She was then deeply moved at the sight of their plight and at once realized that the suffering humanity needed her . She felt inspired to remove the agonies and miseries from the life of the sufferers . She built homes for the homeless . Her Nirmal Hriday at Kalighat became a shelter for the dying . In private life , she was the modest of the modest . Everybody has seen her everywhere , clad in a simple white saree with a blue border , and with a small cross round her neck .
She worked silently and never beat publicity . For all her work she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and Bharat Ratna in 1980 . breathed her last on September 5 , 1997. She was buried sung all over the globe . Her death has lost She a true humanist in her .
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