Bio: Born as Anjezë Gonxhe, she grew up as the youngest of an Indian, Christian family and when she was 8, her father was poisoned and died due to conflicting political views. At age 12, she knew that she wanted to live a life of religion. At 18, she joined the Sisters of Loreto in Ireland to learn English with the intent of becoming a missionary. During this time, a communist regime had taken over her home land and she wasn't allowed back in the country her mother and sister were still living in. They both died before she was allowed back in the country after the regime collapsed. She took her first religious vows in 1931 and had to choose a new name. She wanted to be named after Thérèse of Lisieux but a nun already had that name in the convent, so, she opted for the Spanish spelling "Teresa". She then took her solemn vows of being a nun in 1937 at the age of 27. While traveling on a train in 1946, Sister Teresa experienced what she called "a call within the call" and she knew that God was calling her to serve the poor. She then established the Missionaries of Charity. Sister Teresa knew that if she was going to run the Missionaries of Charity the right way, she needed to dedicate herself more to the poor. Sister Teresa left the Sisters of Loretto to work full time as a nun in the Missionaries of Charity. Fr. Joseph Langford, who co-founded the Missionaries of Charity with Sister Teresa, later wrote that at this time "Sister Teresa became Mother Teresa." Her 13 nun group started in 1946 grew to more than 4,000 nuns by 1997 and they managed orphanages to hospice centers to houses for the poor. Mother Teresa received multiple awards for her work around the world including Pope John XXIII Peace Prize in 1971 by Pope Paul VI, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985. Following a heart attack in 1983, Mother Teresa's health started to decline severely. It is the believed that the devil was trying to do anything to stop Mother Teresa's ministry from heart attacks, pneumonia, broken collarbones and more. Mother Teresa had to resign from her role in the Missionaries of Charity on March 13, 1997 and died later that year. The Vatican immediately started the process of beatification after her death and approved of a miracle in 2002 with a tumor miraculously disappearing after prayers to Mother Teresa. In 2015, Pope Francis announced that the Vatican approved of a second miracle and her canonization was planned.

St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Pray for Us!