AGARTALA, Sep 5 (TIWN): Mother Teresa's sacrifices for Indian orphans are unforgettable. Many of the abandoned children, who left shelterless and homeless were saved when Teresa in 1950 started her missionary. The Missionaries of Charity Center in Calcutta was founded by Mother Teresa in 1950. The center was established to provide support to those in need. Since its foundation, the order has expanded and now comprises 4,500 nuns actively working in more than 600 missions across 133 countries. Mother Teresa (baptized August 27, 1910, Skopje, Macedonia, Ottoman Empire [now in Republic of North Macedonia]—died September 5, 1997, Calcutta [now Kolkata].

She was the recipient of numerous honors, including the 1979 Nobel Prize for Peace. She was canonized as a saint in 2016 by Pope Francis.

TIWN YOUTUBE VIDEO : Mother Teresa, who saved Indian Orphans since the 1950s, was Remembered on her Death Anniversary

Today, on her death anniversary, an event was organized at Nirmala Orphanage in Agartala, where children and members paid floral tribute to her.

WATCH : Nirmala Sishu Griha observed Mother Teresa's death anniversary.

She was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910. The daughter of an ethnic Albanian grocer, she went to Ireland in 1928 to join the Sisters of Loreto at the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and sailed only six weeks later to India as a teacher. Upon making her vows, she chose the name Teresa in honor of the 19th-century French Carmelite nun St. Thérèse of Lisieux. She taught for 17 years at the Loreto Sisters’ school in Calcutta (Kolkata).

In 1962 the Indian government awarded Mother Teresa the Padma Shri, one of its highest civilian honors, for her services to the people of India. Pope Paul VI on his trip to India in 1964 gave her his ceremonial limousine, which she immediately raffled to help finance Shanti Nagar. She was summoned to Rome in 1968 to found a home there, staffed primarily with Indian nuns. In recognition of her apostolate, she was honored on January 6, 1971, by Paul VI, who awarded her the first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize. In 1979 she received the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work, and the following year the Indian government conferred on her the Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian honor.