This new biography for students follows Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu from her humble Albanian birth to worldwide celebrity as Mother Teresa.

As a woman in the patriarchal Catholic system, she had to prove to the hierarchy,

even the Vatican, that she was capable of handling each project she proposed.

Her vision to live and work among the “poorest of the poor” as one of them led to the founding of a new order that tended society’s outcasts.