Who was Mother Teresa?

Born a humble girl in what is now Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu lived a charitable life. She pledged herself to a religious order at the age of 18 and chose the name Sister Teresa, after the patron saint of missionaries. While teaching in India, where famine and violence had devastated the poor, Teresa sh...

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Main Author: Gigliotti, Jim
Other Authors: Groff, David 1956- (Illustrator)
Format: Downloads eBook Books eBook
Language:English
Published: 2015.
Series:Who Was...?.
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