Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu was born on 26 August 1910 in the village of Üsküp, in the Ottoman Empire (now Skopje in North Macedonia).  Better known as Mother Teresa, the Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity.

At 18, Mother Teresa moved to Ireland and the India, where she lived most of her life. On 4 September 2016, she was canonised by the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. The anniversary of her death, 5 September, is her feast day.

The Missionaries of Charity manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy, and tuberculosis. The congregation also runs soup kitchens, dispensaries, mobile clinics, children’s and family counselling programmes, as well as orphanages and schools. Members take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience and also profess a fourth vow: to give “wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor.”

The front of this French commemorative piece shows Mother Teresa holding a baby.

The reverse of the piece shows praying hands with a cross. Here is the official canonisation portrait of Mother Teresa, painted by renowned American artist Chas Fagan and commissioned by the Knights of Columbus: