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She began organizing her new religious order in 1948 at the age of 38.

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She entered the Loreto convent when she was 18 years old. That was the beginning of her professional life.

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At the age of 18 she joined the Sisters of Loreto in 1929 and founded her own order to assist the poor in 1950 at the age of about 40.

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Mother Teresa was just a month short of her 40th birthday when she received approval from the Pope for her religious order in 1950.

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