- Ursula Ledóchowska
Infobox Saint
name=Ursula Ledóchowska
birth_date=17 April, 1865
death_date=29 May, 1939
feast_day=26 May
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birth_place=Loosdorf, Lower Austria
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beatified_date=20 June, 1983
beatified_place=Poznan, Poland
beatified_by=Pope John Paul II
canonized_date=18 May 2003
canonized_place=Vatican
canonized_by=Pope John Paul II
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issues=Saint Ursula Ledóchowska was a
Roman Catholic nun who founded the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus.Background
Born as Julia Maria Ledóchowska on
17 April 1865 inLoosdorf ,Lower Austria , to a Polish nobleman and an Austrian mother as one of five children. The siblings were born on the estate of their father, Count Antoni Halka-Ledóchowski. Mieczysław Cardinal Ledóchowski was a paternal uncle.Due to financial reverses, the family moved to
Saint Poelten and later toLipnica in their father's native Poland in 1873. Count Antoni Halka-Ledóchowski died ofsmallpox in February 1885. The siblings' uncle, Mieczysław Cardinal Ledóchowski, assumed responsibility for them.Saint Ursula Ledóchowska died on
29 May 1939 inRome , aged 74, in the Gray Ursuline convent, Via del Casalet, of natural causes. Herincorrupt body was translated to the Gray Ursuline motherhouse inPniewy , Poland in 1989.Canonization
She was
beatified byPope John Paul II on20 June 1983 and canonized in 2005. Her sister, Theresa, was also canonized for her services to the Catholic Church as Saint Theresa Ledóchowska.See also
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Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (Grey Ursulines)
*Maria Theresa Ledochowska
*Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski
*Igor Ledochowski External links
* [http://www.urszulanki.sjk.pl Profile (in Polish)]
* [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintu13.htm Catholic Forum profile]
* [http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=5609 Catholic Online profile]
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