!!!Ledochowska, Maria Theresia Gräfin Pseudonyme Alexander Halka, Africanus

Ledóchowska, Countess Maria Theresia (pseudonym: Alexander 
Halka, Africanus), b. Loosdorf (Lower Austria), April 29, 1863, 
d. Rome (Italy), July 6, 1922, missionary and founder of a 
congregation; sister of Ursula  Ledóchowska. From 1888 founded 
societies against slavery and in 1894 the St. Petrus Claver Sodality 
for African missions (a religious community bound by vows) in 
Salzburg; established printing offices for religious African books and 
from 1889 edited the missionary magazine "Echo aus Afrika" (translated 
into 10 languages). Beatified, 1975.

!Literature
M. T. Walzer, Auf neuen Wegen, 1972; M. Winowska, Das 
Geheimnis der M. T. L., 1977.


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