December 10 is a marked day and has a special symbolism for the Albanian nation, as exactly, 44 years ago, Saint Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 

On December 10, 1979, in Oslo, Norway, Gonxhe Bojaxhiu was declared a Nobel laureate, thus becoming the first Albanian winner of the most prestigious award in the world. 

At the time of receiving the Nobel Prize in 1979, one of the clergy attending the hall asked Mother Teresa where she was from. 

"I was born in Skopje, I was educated in London, I live in Calcutta and I work for all the poor people in the world. My homeland is a small country called Albania", she declared at the time. 

That was the day when the whole world learned that Saint Teresa was Albanian. 

She has encountered difficulties in speaking fluent Albanian after a 70-year absence and living in non-Albanian environments, but she has never denied her Albanian origins, reports Kosova Press. 

Her writings in Albanian are the letters of her youth and then with her family in Albanian, greetings in Albanian to the Albanian people after winning the Nobel Prize in 1979. 

She was the guardian mother of 7,500 children in 60 schools, she was the mother who treated 960,000 sick people in 213 dispensaries, she was the only one in the world who treated 47,000 victims of leprosy in 54 clinics, she took care of 3,400 abandoned and streetwise elders, in 20 nursing home, had adopted 160 illegitimate and virgin children. These are the figures of the mid-eighties.