The Conscience Keeper Mother Teresa (1910–1997)

During her lifetime, Mother Teresa established a multinational order of compassion, setting up hospices, leprosy homes and feeding centres for the needy

- Navin B. Chawla

In 1948, a 38-year-old Albanian nun stepped out from the security of the Loreto convent into the streets of Calcutta. She had no money and no companion, only an abundance of faith. Everywhere was destitution and misery, victims of the Partition and famine. When a hospital refused to admit a dying man, she started a small shelter for the destitute. She needed food and medicines for them, so she begged on the streets. In my 23