Philoptochos Holy Myrrh Bearers Cultural Event

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At our first Holy Myrrhbearers Cultural event on August 5th, we learned about Princess Ileana of Romania; granddaughter of both Queen Victoria of Britain and Tsar Alexander II of Russia, and daughter of Queen Maria and King Ferdinand of Romania. In 1967, she took final vows as a monastic and became Mother Alexandra, founder and abbess of the first English-language Orthodox women's monastery in the United States – the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration in Ellwood City, PA.

(Taken from her biography, "Royal Monastic", by Bev. Cooke, 2008)