[1] 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.

[3][4] Her death brought 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.

[2] The confirmation of her heroic virtue allowed for her to be named as Venerable in 1983; Pope John Paul II beatified her in Poznań in 1983 and later canonized Ledóchowska in Saint Peter's Square in mid-2003.

[1] Julia Ledóchowska was born just after Easter on 17 April 1865 in Loosdorf into a prominent noble house as the fifth of ten children to Count Antoni Halka-Ledóchowski and his second wife Countess Josephine Salis-Zizers.

There she worked to build up the Saint Catharine House which was a residence for Polish children and adolescents that were living there at the behest of its pastor Konstantin Budkiewicz.

Once the tsarist government oppression to the faith grew she moved to the Russian-controlled Finland where she translated songs and a catechism for the Finnish fishermen who were Protestants for the most part.

In 1914 she was expelled from the Russian Empire and sought refuge in neutral Sweden though still kept in touch with the religious who remained in Russia.

In 1920 she returned to Poland with 40 other nuns who had joined her in her mission and with permission from Rome changed a convent in Pniewy into the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus which were founded on 7 June 1920.

It was in Poland that the apostolic nuncio Achille Ratti – future Pope Pius XI – encouraged and blessed her work.

[4][2][3] In 1928 she founded a religious center in Rome where she had been living for sometime after Pope Benedict XV had invited her to manage the order there at the beginning of that decade.

The decisive miracle that led to Ledóchowska's canonization was the cure of Daniel Gajewski who avoided electrocution in circumstances where he would otherwise have been killed had it not been for the late religious sister whom he saw moments before fading into unconsciousness on 2 August 1996.