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Mother Teresa’s 100th Birthday Preparation Begins on Death Anniv.
(AP Photo/Bikas Das)
Nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, pray at the Mother’s tomb in a special mass observing her 12th death anniversary in Calcutta, India, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009. Albanian-born Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She died in 1997 in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta, where she worked with the city's poor.
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