Mother Theresa
born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, now the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. Although
she was born on August 26, 1910, she considered August 27, 1910, the day she was baptized,
to be her "true birthday." Although some sources state that she was 10 when her father died,
in an interview with her brother, the Vatican documents her age at the time as "about eight".
She was the youngest of the children of a family from Shkodër, Albania, born to Kolë and
Dranafile Bojaxhiu (Albanian Dranafile for "rose", nicknamed "Drone"). Her father, Kolë
Bojaxhiu was involved in Albanian politics. In 1919, after a political meeting, which left
Skopje out of Albania, he fell ill and died when Agnes was about eight years old. After her
father's death, her mother raised her as a Roman Catholic. According to a biography by Joan
Graff Clucas, in her early years Agnes was fascinated by stories of the lives of missionaries
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