Mother Teresa

[ (tuh-ree-suh, tuh-ray-zuh) ]

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A Roman Catholic nun, born in Yugoslavia, who received the Nobel Prize for peace in 1979 for her humanitarian work among lepers and other dying poor of Calcutta.

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