Mother Teresa was 12 when she heard the call of God. Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in what is now North Macedonia, she became a nun at 18, but left her convent at 38 in response to “the call within the call” to work with “the poorest of the poor” in Calcutta. Today the “Missionaries of Charity” order she established helps the sick, poor, dying, and disaster victims in more than 120 countries. In 1979, at age 69, Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize. She died in 1997 at age 87 and was canonized by Pope Francis in 2016. Read Who Cares? about the struggle for dignity at Woodruff Home for the Aged, “a lively place where old people go to die.” Learn more about the book and its characters, aged 9-90, in NOVELS.
Mother Teresa heard the “call within the call” to serve “the poorest of the poor”
Woodruff Home for the Aged, a lively place where old people go to die
