Palau 100th Anniversary Birth of Mother Teresa 2010 Enameled Proof Silver Cro

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Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was a Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship who in 1950 founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries. Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. By the 1970s, she was internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless, due in part to a documentary and book “Something Beautiful for God” by Malcolm Muggeridge. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and in 1980, India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, for her humanitarian work. Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity continued to expand, and at the time of her death it was operating 610 missions in 123 countries, including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy, tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counseling programs, orphanages and schools.