Saint
Saint Teresa of Calcutta
- Country / origin
- North Macedonia / India
- Life
- 1910–1997
- Feast
- 5 September
- Canonised
- 2016
Awaiting theological review
Who was this?
Born in Skopje, she founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta to serve the poorest of the poor, the dying and the abandoned.
Patron of
- the poor
- the abandoned
- the dying
- charity
When to ask for intercession
- it is hard to serve someone
- in the face of poverty, loneliness or abandonment
A short prayer
Saint Teresa of Calcutta, teach me to recognise Jesus in the poorest and to love through small gestures.
Written for Lumen as a simple personal prayer of intercession — not a liturgical text.
What are you living through today?
- Poverty and volunteering
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