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Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.

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Mother Teresa
Age: 87 †
Born: 1910
Born: August 26
Died: 1997
Died: September 5
Religious Sister
Saint
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Saint Teresa of Calcutta
Holiness
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Holy
Progress
Grace

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