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All over her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa become an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her strange contributions to the care of the unwell, the dying, and thousands of others no one else used to be prepared to look after has been recognized and acclaimed during the world. Little is known, alternatively, about her own spiritual heights or her struggles. This number of letters she wrote to her spiritual advisors over decades, almost all of which have never been made public before, sheds light on Mother Teresa’s interior life in a way that reveals the depth and intensity of her holiness for the first time. A moving chronicle of her spiritual journey?including moments, indeed years, of utter desolation?these letters reveal the secrets she shared only along with her closest confidants. She emerges as a classic mystic whose inner life burned with the fire of charity and whose heart used to be tested and purified by an intense trial of faith, a true dark night of the soul.