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3 unusual facts about Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin


Alexandra Gallitzin

Excerpts from her written prayers and thoughts were published by her grandson Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin in his book Vie d'une religieuse du Sacre-coeur. Her correspondence with Madame Swetchine and Russian Catholics are contained in the book Lettres de Madame de Swetchine (Paris, 1862).

Sisto Riario Sforza

He contributed to the conversion to Roman Catholicism of count Otto Magnus von Stackelberg and prince Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin.

Taneytown, Maryland

Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, Catholic priest, missionary, and Russian prince during the late 18th century.


Joseph M. Finotti

His last literary effort, which he did not live to see published, entitled "The Mystery of the Wizard Clip" (Baltimore, 1879), is a story of preternatural occurrences at Smithfield, West Virginia, involving Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin.


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Alexandra Gallitzin

Sister to Moscow aristocrat and writer Catherine Rostopchin and maid of honour and dame of the Order of Saint Catherine Vera Vasilchikova, she was the mother of five, including Peter Gallitzin, and the grandmother of the Roman Catholic missionary, Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin who published her writing post-humously.