ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 5th of September WELCOME! SAINT MOTHER TERESA OF KOLKATA (FORMERLY CALCUTTA) Saint Mother Teresa, original name Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, (baptised on August 27, 1910, Skopje, Macedonia, Ottoman Empire - died September 5, 1997, Kolkata, India; canonised September 4, 2016; feast day September 5), is the foundress of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to the poor, particularly to the destitute of India. She was the recipient of numerous honours, including the 1979 Nobel Prize for Peace. (More information at: Encyclopedia Britannica - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mother-Teresa - external link) PRAYER: O God, who called the virgin Saint Teresa to respond to the love of your Son thirsting on the cross with outstanding charity to the poorest of the poor, grant us, we beseech you, by her intercession, to minister to Christ in his suffering brothers. ...