"The other day I dreamed that the gates of heaver... and St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here'. These words, once spoken by Mother Teresa, vividly recalls the life of the late Roman Catholic nun and missionary, known as "the Saint of the Gutters". Mother Teresa, originally christened as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910. She was the daughter of humble Albanian parents—a grocer and his wife. As a public school student she developed a special interest in overseas missions and, by the age of 12. she felt strongly the call of God. At the age of 18, she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sister of Loreto, an Irish Community who runs of nuns missions in India. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931,
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