Ursula Ledóchowska

Ursula Ledóchowska

Julia Ledóchowska, USAHJ (17 April 1865 – 29 May 1939), religious name Maria Ursula of Jesus, was a religious sister and the foundress of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus. 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. 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ursula Ledóchowska has received more than 60,953 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Ursula Ledóchowska is the 2,267th most popular religious figure, the 750th most popular biography from Austria and the 20th most popular Austrian Religious Figure.