Mother Teresa grew up in...
Mother Teresa grew up in Albania. Her father was generous with money for the poor, and there were often strangers at the table whom her mother fed. Mother Teresa remembered helping wash an alcoholic woman covered with sores. With this background she carried out her ministry in the slums of Calcutta, helping the destitute and the dying. At one time she provided care for a leprous woman who had no fingers with which to care for herself. Another time, she carried a dying woman, found in the streets being eaten by rats and cockroaches, to various hospitals pleading for someone to take her in.
