.jpg)
Mother Teresa was always her own person, startlingly independent, obedient, yet challenging some preconceived notions and expectations. Her own life story includes many illustrations of her willingness to listen to and follow her own conscience, even when it seemed to contradict what was expected.
Mother Teresa lived a selfless life in service of others, this luminous messenger of God’s love was born on 26 August 1910 in Skopje, a city situated at the crossroads of Balkan The youngest of the children born to Nikola and Drane Bojaxhiu, she was baptised Gonxha Agnes.
Though so much of her young life was centered in the Church, Mother Teresa later revealed that until she reached 18, she had never thought of being a nun.
