Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski paid Wednesday a visit to the house of Mother Teresa in Kolkata, where she worked and was laid to rest.

Gruevski thanked the missionaries for the hospitality, saying one of Macedonia's strongest ties with India was the fact that Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, where a Memorial House is also open for visitors.

Nobel Prize laureate Mother Teresa was born Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Skopje in 1910, but left in 1928, joining the Sisters of Loreto as a missionary. In 1946, Teresa experienced what she later described as "the call within the call" while travelling by train to the Loreto convent in Darjeeling from Calcutta for her annual retreat. She began her missionary work with the poor in 1948, replacing her traditional Loreto habit with a simple white cotton sari decorated with a blue border. Teresa received Vatican permission in 1950 to start the diocesan congregation that would become the Missionaries of Charity. Its mission was to care for, in her own words, "the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, and all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone." It began as a small congregation with 13 members in Calcutta. At the time of her death in 1997, Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity had over 4,000 sisters, and an associated brotherhood of 300 members, operating 610 missions in 123 countries.