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Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Featured Biography Mother Teresa

Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength.

Mother Teresa

Baptized in Macedonia this day in 1910, Mother Teresa founded the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to helping the poor, and later received the 1979 Nobel Prize for Peace.

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August 27, 1941 — December 17, 2011
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c.1450 — August 27, 1521
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November 25, 1562 — August 27, 1635
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August 27, 1899 — April 2, 1966
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August 27, 1858 — April 20, 1932
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Giuseppe Peano was an Italian mathematician and a founder of symbolic...