Mother Teresa

Born in Skopje, Macedonia, the ethnically Albanian Mother Teresa was christened Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu to a Kosovar-Albanian family and felt the call of God at the age of 12. Inspired by missionary work, she joined the Sister of Loretta after a move to Ireland and was sent to India where she took her first vows as a nun, taking the name Teresa after the patron saint of missionaries. She became Mother Teresa in 1936 when she made her final profession of vows. Later she devoted her life to the poor, disabled, outcast, blind and elderly.
The Vatican allowed to start her own order, the Missionaries of Charity in 1950 which meant that she now had other people helping her. Mother Teresa was able to expand her work outside of India in 1965 so she could help others around the world like children trapped in a hospital in war stricken Beirut in Lebanon, radiation victims in Ukraine and she founded a hospital for AIDS victims in New York. She died in September 1997 and was given a state funeral by the Indian government.
Some have criticized her for what she did with the money received and her Catholicism but don't let that get in the way of her legacy. 19 years after her death, she was canonized as a saint on 4 September 2016 under the name St. Teresa of Calcutta with the anniversary of her death 5th September being her feast day.