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Detailed explanation-1: -Mother Teresa received Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Mother Teresa will be made a saint on September 4, Pope Francis announced on Tuesday, 19 years after the death of the Nobel Laureate who spent 45 years serving the poor and sick on the streets of Kolkata.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1979 to Mother Teresa. Thirty years ago Mother Teresa left her teaching post at a Roman Catholic girls’ school in Calcutta in order to devote her life to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of that city.

Detailed explanation-3: -During her life, Mother Teresa receives more than 700 prizes for her charity work and she is the most awarded person in the XXth century.

Detailed explanation-4: -On October 17, 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work with the poor. Considered one of the greatest humanitarians of the 20th century, she was beatified in October 2003 and canonized by Pope Francis as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in September 2016.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mother Teresa, revered for her work with the poor in India, has been proclaimed a saint by Pope Francis in a ceremony at the Vatican.