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Princess Ileana of Romania, also known as Mother Alexandra (5 January 1909 – 21 January 1991), was the youngest daughter of King Ferdinand I of Romania and his consort, Queen Marie of Romania. She was a great-granddaughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia, King Ferdinand II, Queen Maria II of Portugal, and Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
May 30, 2022 · Princess Ileana of Romania was the youngest daughter of King Ferdinand of Romania and his consort Queen Marie of Romania. After her exile from Communist Romania, she was tonsured a monastic , as Mother Alexandra , and moved to the United States of America where she established the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration in Ellwood City ...
Half a world away and many years later, in a small monastery built on the side of a hill in western Pennsylvania, a diminutive octogenarian nun humbly bore witness to the merits of pre-communist Romania – Mother Alexandra, formerly Princess Ileana, daughter of Ferdinand and Marie.
Mother Alexandra (formerly Princess Ileana of Romania) was a royal exile who founded the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration in Ellwood City, PA in 1967. She was a medical doctor, a Red Cross worker, a speaker against Communism, and a monastic who wrote several books on Orthodoxy.
Jan 22, 1991 · Princess Ileana of Romania, who was known as Mother Alexandra after becoming a nun, died at midday yesterday in St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center in Youngstown, Ohio, Mother...
Jan 23, 2019 · Mother Alexandra, who died in 1991, was the daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of Romania and the wife of Archduke Anton Hapsburg. She founded the Monastery of the Transfiguration in Pennsylvania and wrote several books on Orthodoxy and monasticism.
Jan 26, 2021 · Learn about the life and legacy of Princess Ileana, the last princess of Romania, who became a monastic founder and writer in America. She was honored on the 30th anniversary of her repose in 2021.
