She was the co-founder of the Sisters, Servants of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus which she established with Józef Sebastian Pelczar.

[1] She was born Ludwika Szczęsna in Poland in 1863 as the sixth of seven children of Antoni Szczęsny and Franciszka Skorupska.

Her father wanted to arrange a marriage for her when she was seventeen but she opposed this and announced to him her intention to follow her vocation and become a professed religious.

[2] She served as the first Superior General and opened over 30 houses with the aim of tending to women as well as the sick; this work intensified with the outbreak of World War I.

Pope Benedict XVI approved that she had lived a life of heroic virtue and proclaimed her to be venerable on 20 December 2012.