Mother Teresa - "If you want to find the source of pure virtue, look to the cross. I can only attempt to follow the lead of the true giver of mercy.”


Factoid - Albanian-Indian nun, founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity. Daughter of a grocer, she became a nun and went to India as a young woman. After studying nursing, she moved to the slums; in 1948 she founded her order, which served the blind, the aged, lepers, the disabled, and the dying.