I Live Again: A Memoir of Ileana, Princess of Romania and Archduchess of Austria

by Ileana Archduchess of Austria

Overview

Ileana, Princess of Romania and Archduchess of Austria--who in later life became Mother Alexandra, founder of the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration in Pennsylvania--wrote this memoir shortly after relocating to the US in the 1950s. It tells the story of a life full of suffering, tragedy, and exile, but all is suffused with the author's deep faith, hope, love, and even joy. This reprint includes additional material collected by the nuns of her monastery that sets the memoir in the context of Mother Alexandra's later life.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162076612
Publisher:	Ancient Faith Publishing
Publication date:	06/04/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

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 Queen Victoria and of Tsar Alexander II. She was born as Her Royal Highness Ileana, Princess of Romania, Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. In 1931, Ileana married the Archduke Anton of Austria, Prince of Tuscany. After the last king of Romania abdicated in 1947, Ileana and her family were exiled from the newly Communist Romania. After settling first in Austria, then in Switzerland and Argentina, she and her six children moved to the US in 1950. In 1961, Ileana entered the Orthodox Monastery of the Protection of the Mother of God, in Bussy-en-Othe, France. On her tonsuring as a monastic, in 1967, Sister Ileana was given the name Mother Alexandra. She moved back to the United States and founded the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, the first English language Orthodox monastery in North America. She served as abbess until her retirement in 1981, remaining at the monastery until her death.