Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

Awarded the Prize “in recognition of her work in bringing help to suffering humanity, her promotion of peace in the most fundamental manne by the confirmation of the inviolability of human dignity.”

Indian philanthropist. Mother Teresa was baptized on August 27, 1910 at Shkup, Albania (now Skopje, Macedonia). After a few months’ training at Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dublin, she was sent to Calcutta, India as a teacher. She taught at St. Mary’s High School. From 1929 to 1948. Although she met great difficult, she started an open-air school for homeless children. She has fifty relief projects operating in India, comprising work among slum-dwellers, children’s homes, homes for the dying, clinics a leper colony. Mother Teresa died on September 5, 1997 in Calcutta.