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Mother Teresa

Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and saint known for her charitable work with the poor.

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Mother Teresa is best known for Founding the Missionaries of Charity and dedicated humanitarian work with the poor in Calcutta. On Dead or Alive, Mother Teresa is listed in the Nobel Laureates category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Mother Teresa is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Founding the Missionaries of Charity and dedicated humanitarian work with the poor in Calcutta
Listed under: Nobel Laureates

About Mother Teresa

On 4 September 2016, she was canonised by the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. In 1950, Mother Teresa established the Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation that was initially dedicated to serving "the poorest of the poor" in the slums of Calcutta. Members of the order take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience and also profess a fourth vow: to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor." Mother Teresa received several honours, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. Her authorized biography, written by Navin Chawla, was published in 1992, and on 6 September 2017, she was named a co-patron of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta alongside St Francis Xavier.

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