About Mary Theresa Ledóchowska
Mary Theresa Ledóchowska,; 29 April 1863 – 6 July 1922), was a Polish Catholic religious sister who founded the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver, dedicated to spreading Catholicism in Africa. She was beatified in 1975. == Life == === Early life === Mary Theresa was the eldest of seven children. Members of the Polish nobility, she and her siblings – including Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, and St. Ursula Ledóchowska – were born in Loosdorf, the Lower Austrian estate that belonged to their parents, Count Antoni Halka-Ledóchowski and Countess Josephine Salis-Zizers. As a young girl, Ledóchowska exhibited a great love of the arts and displayed talent as a writer. She loved society life and would dress in her finest attire to attend the balls which were part of her family's social life. She was educated by the Sisters of Loreto in Sankt Pölten and displayed a strong Catholic piety, as was typical in her family. Her social life continued until both she and father contracted smallpox in 1885.
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