According to some sources, the Catholic nun Mother Teresa is of Armenian origin, about which Vazgen I said after the meeting with Mother Teresa. «After the 1988 Spitak earthquake, when Mother Teresa arrived in Armenia, she also met Vazgen I. During the meeting, Mother Teresa told the Catholicos about her Armenian origin. (real name: Agnes Gondja Boyajiu). Mother Teresa was eighteen years old when she decided to convert to celibacy and was named Teresa. Later in India he founded a charity group whose activities were aimed at establishing schools, orphanages, the seriously ill and hospitals for the poor. The group soon expanded beyond India to other parts of the world. In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Prize for Helping People in Need.