St. Teresa of Calcutta

Visit the places connected with St. Teresa of Calcutta’s birth, vocation, Missionaries of Charity, and tomb in Kolkata.

Feast: September 51910–19974 connected places3 countries

Biography

Teresa was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Skopje and entered religious life before serving in India. In Kolkata she founded the Missionaries of Charity, whose work centered on direct service to people experiencing profound poverty, illness, abandonment, and dying.

Her pilgrimage geography joins distinct chapters: baptismal memory in Skopje, vocational discernment at Letnica, decades of life and service in Kolkata, and later worldwide devotion. The Mother House preserves her tomb and the institutional home of the community she founded.

How to read this pilgrimage

Kolkata is the central destination for her tomb and mature mission; Skopje and Letnica preserve earlier formation and vocation rather than her later ministry.

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Places connected with St. Teresa of Calcutta

Every card states the recorded relationship so a tomb, lifetime place, relic, and later devotional shrine are not presented as interchangeable claims.

Saint Tomb · Kolkata, India

Missionaries of Charity Mother House and Tomb of St. Teresa of Calcutta

documented tomb, longtime home, and headquarters of the religious family she founded

Relics · Skopje, North Macedonia

Mother Teresa Memorial House and Chapel

Memorial on the site of her baptismal church; second-class relic displayed

Museum and chapel, not birthplace house or tomb.

Cathedral · Pristina, Kosovo

Cathedral of St. Teresa of Calcutta

Patron of the cathedral and focus of diocesan devotion

The cathedral is dedicated to the saint; her tomb remains in Kolkata.

Shrine · Letnicë, Kosovo

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Letnica

Discerned her religious vocation during pilgrimage at Letnica

Vocation site, not birthplace or tomb.

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Books and trusted reading

Use these starting points to meet St. Teresa of Calcutta beyond a short page summary. Links currently lead to library catalogs or free official Church texts; Catholic Tourist does not earn a commission from them.

Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light

By Brian Kolodiejchuk, MC

A collection of private writings and correspondence that reveals the interior life behind Teresa’s public mission.

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