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In this new biograhy, students will follow Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu from her humble Albanian birth to worldwide celebrity as Mother Teresa. The nun who attended to the dying and diseased in Calcutta, India, and established her Missionaries of Charity around the world is revealed to have a singular determination from a young age. As a woman in the atriarchal Catholic system, she had to rove to the hierarchy, even the Vatican, that she was caable of handling each roject she roosed. Her vision to live and work among the oorest of the oor led to the founding of a new order that tended to societys outcasts. This biograhy suggests that Mother Teresa transcended her ordinariness with a belief that she was called to her lifes work. When her work brought Mother Teresa unsought fame, she used it to further her causes. In a global age, celebrity worshi allowed her to work the system, and she became an icon of service and selflessnessyet her human flaws remained behind the saintliness.