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I couldn't find an answer to your exact question, but I did read that Mother Teresa had decided to devote her life to religion by age twelve.

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St. Teresa of Calcutta was born on 26 August 1910. On September 10, 1946, Teresa experienced what she later described as "the call within the call" while traveling to the Loreto convent in Darjeeling for her annual retreat. "I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them. It was an order. To fail would have been to break the faith." So at that time, she was 36 years old.

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