Mother Teresa

Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu was born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, now North Macedonia. Her father was a successful merchant who died when she was eight, possibly poisoned for his Albanian nationalist activities. Her mother, Dranafile, raised the children in devout Catholic faith and practical charity, feeding the poor was as routine as feeding the family. At eighteen, Anjezë joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish order with missions in India. She took the name Teresa, after Thérèse of Lisieux, the 'Little Flower' who taught that small acts done with great love are as valuable as grand ones. She was sent to Calcutta, where she taught geography at a school for wealthy Bengali girls for nearly twenty years. She was happy.

Mother Teresa is best known as a religious leader. Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and served the poorest in Kolkata and beyond.

Mother Teresa lived 1910-1997 CE, born in 1910 and died in 1997, during the contemporary period.

There is no verified IQ score for Mother Teresa — modern IQ testing only began in 1905, and the numbers attached to historical figures online are retrospective estimates, not real test results. Psychologists have occasionally published such estimates from biographical evidence, but historians treat them as speculation. The better measure of Mother Teresa's mind is the record itself, and you can explore it firsthand by asking the AI Mother Teresa how they thought through their hardest decisions.

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