TY - BOOK AU - Gigliotti,Jim AU - Harrison,Nancy ED - Overdrive.com. TI - Who was Mother Teresa?- Biography SN - 0698412117 AV - Biography PY - 2015/// CY - New York, New York PB - Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC KW - Teresa, KW - Missionaries of Charity KW - Biography KW - 20th century KW - Electronic books N2 - Born a humble girl in what is now Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu lived a charitable life. She pledged herself to a religious order at the age of 18 and chose the name Sister Teresa, after the patron saint of missionaries. While teaching in India, where famine and violence had devastated the poor, Teresa shed her habit and walked the streets of Calcutta tending to the needs of the destitute. Her charity work soon expanded internationally, and her name remains synonymous with compassion and devotion to the poor UR - http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=200735&titleID=2097340 ER -