Ursula Ledóchowska
Polish Roman Catholic nun and saint (1865–1939) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Julia Ledóchowska, USAHJ (17 April 1865 – 29 May 1939), religious name Maria Ursula of Jesus, was a Polish Catholic religious sister and the foundress of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus.[1] Ledóchowska was a prolific supporter of Polish independence which she often spoke about at conferences across Scandinavia while she settled in Russia for a time to open convents until her expulsion.[2] But she continued to found convents across Scandinavian countries and even translated a Finnish catechism for the faithful there while later founding her own order which she would later manage from Rome at the behest of Pope Benedict XV.[3][4]
Ursula Ledóchowska USAHJ | |
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Born | 17 April 1865 Loosdorf, Melk, Lower Austria, Austrian Empire |
Died | 29 May 1939(1939-05-29) (aged 74) Rome, Kingdom of Italy |
Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
Beatified | 20 June 1983, Poznań, Poland by Pope John Paul II |
Canonized | 18 May 2003, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
Feast | 29 May |
Her death caused a tremendous outpouring of grief across Europe in the places that she had lived in and had visited; before long there were calls for a sainthood process to launch which would open 15 October 1981 (titling her as a Servant of God) despite diocesan investigations happening decades prior.[2] The confirmation of her heroic virtue allowed for her to be named as Venerable in 1983; Pope John Paul II beatified her in Poznań in 1983 and later canonized Ledóchowska in Saint Peter's Square in mid-2003.[1]