Mother Teresa Mother Teresa, also known as "Saint of the Gutters" devoted her life to reaching out to the sick and the outcast. The people that no one else wanted to deal with, Mother Teresa took privilege in helping. To her "earthly sufferers were nothing less than Christ in disguise." (Das 2) The life that Mother Teresa lived was a life devoted to serving the Lord and everything that she did was portrayed by it. Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, Yugoslovia, which is now part of Macedonia. She was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She is the youngest of three children in her family. She was the daughter of Albanian parents. Her father was a grocer and her mother