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Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhia, better known as Mother Teresa, was born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje in Macedonia. She was the youngest of three children of an Albanian family. As she was pink and plump, her brothers and sisters fondly called her `Gonxha` (flower bud). From childhood, the children were taught lessons of charity. Agnes liked to be in church and spend most of her free time reading, praying and singing.
In the pic:Sister Nirmala, successor to Mother Teresa, carries a silver `challis` as she prepares to offer homage to Mother Teresa on her 94th birth anniversary, at the Mother House in Kolkata on 26 Aug. Some 200 nuns of the house together with a number of volunteers took part in the morning service to mark the day. AFP
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