Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, the daughter of an ethnic Albanian grocer, in 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia (now North Macedonia). She went to Ireland in 1928 to join the Sisters of Loreto at the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and sailed six weeks later to India, where she taught for 17 years at the order’s school in Calcutta (Kolkata).
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