GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Uskup, Ottoman Empire (now Skopje, North Macedonia), on August 26, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mother Teresa was originally born ‘Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu’ in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26th 1910. Her name change came when Agnes took her first vows as a nun in 1929 and changed her name to Sister Mary Teresa.

Detailed explanation-3: -She founded the order, The Missionaries of Charity, to look after abandoned babies and to help the poorest of the poor, once saying that they “lived like animals but die like angels". In 1979 she received the Nobel Peace Prize and after her death was canonised as Saint Teresa.