SAINT TERESA OF CALCUTTA was born on 1910 in Skopje. She joined the Sisters of Loreto at the age of 18 and was assigned to teach at a school in Calcutta. In 1948 she received a vision of Jesus instructing her to form the Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity. Saint Teresa of Calcutta worked in the slums for the next fifty years and died in 1997.