Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun who created a legacy by helping the poor, will be declared a saint by Pope Francis on Sunday in a canonization ceremony in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square.
Born in 1910 in what is now Skopje, Macedonia, Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu went on to become one of perhaps the most controversial figures in the church. She was beatified in 2003, six years after her death.
Here are 10 photos commemorating the life of soon-to-be Saint Teresa of Calcutta.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta (L), the humble nun known as the "saint of the gutters," walks together with the brother Roger Schutz-Marsauche, founder and preacher of the community of Taize, during her pilgrimage to Taize in October 1983. (Luc Novovitch/AFP/Getty Images)
Mother Teresa talks to nuns from the Missionaries of Charity after a mass at the congregation's home for destitute children in New Delhi. (Raveendran/AFP/Getty Images)
This photo taken in November 1972 in New Delhi shows Roman Catholic nun Mother Teresa (R) with India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. (AFP/Getty Images)
Pope John Paul II, right, holds his arm around Mother Teresa as they ride in the popemobile outside the Home of the Dying in Calcutta, India in this February 1986 photo. (AP Photo, files)
This file photo taken in December 1979 shows Mother Teresa in Oslo with the Nobel Peace Prize she received. (AFP/Getty Images)
In this June 1995 file photo released by the White House, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Mother Teresa at the opening of the Mother Teresa Home for Infant Children. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images)
Mother Teresa holds the resolutions of honorary American citizenship after they were presented to her by American Ambassador to India Frank G. Wisner at the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India, Saturday, Nov. 16, 1996. (AP Photo/str)
US President George Bush (R) listens to Mother Teresa (L) during a meeting in the White House Oval Office in December 1991. (David Ake/AFP/Getty Images)
This May 1981 file photo shows then-U.S. president Ronald Reagan (R) and his wife Nancy (L) bidding farewell to the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize-winning Mother Teresa (C) at the White House in Washington, D.C. (AFP/Getty Images)
US Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-SC, (C) and US House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R) listen to Mother Teresa (L) 05 June in the US Senate in Washington, D.C. (Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images)
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