Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Sept. 4, 2024.

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On Sept. 4, 2016, elevating the “saint of the gutters” to one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors, Pope Francis canonized Mother Teresa, praising her radical dedication to society’s outcasts and her courage in shaming world leaders for the “crimes of poverty they themselves created.”

Agnes Gonxe Bojaxhiu was born in 1910 in Skopje, in what is now Macedonia. In 1928, she became a novitiate in Ireland and took the name Sister Teresa. The next year, she began work in Kolkata, the city formerly known as Calcutta. In 1937, she took her final vows and the name Mother Teresa.

But her path changed in 1946, when she received a “call within a cal

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