Ursula, Blessed (Yulia Leduchowskaya) (1865-1939) - Catholic Saint

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URSULA (Lay name Countess Yulia Leduchowskaya), Catholic nun. She joined the convent of Ursuline Sisters in Krakow as a novice in 1887, and took the veil the following year under the name of Ursula in the same convent. In 1904, she became Mother Superior of the convent. Ursula came to St. Petersburg in 1907 on the invitation of K. Budkevich, senior priest of the Catholic congregation. Here Ursula headed a gymnasium and a boarding school for girls at the St. Catherine’s Roman Catholic Church. In 1910, she founded a school for girls and a female community in Uusikirko (currently Polyany) on the Karelian Isthmus. She left Russia in 1914 and thereafter lived in Sweden, Denmark, Poland. She established the Ursuline Convent in Pniewy (Poland) in 1920. She was beatified by Roman Catholic church in 1983.

Reference: Сирасте К. Блаженная Урсула // Невский архив: Ист.-краевед. сб. М.; СПб., 1995. [Вып.] 2. С. 414-416.

A. V. Kobak. Budkevich Konstantin Romuald Yulianovich
Ursula (Yulia Leduchowskaya), blessed
Сирасте К. Блаженная Урсула // Невский архив: Ист.-краев. сб. М.; СПб., 1995 St. Catherine’s Roman Catholic Church