Did you know that we have a princess buried here on American soil? She was a very real princess and a member of the Romanian Royal Family. Her name was Princess Ileana. She was the youngest daughter of King Ferdinand I and Queen Marie of Romania. A devout Orthodox Christian, nurse during wartime, mother of six, author, and exile, she founded the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania—the first English-speaking Orthodox women’s monastery in the United States. She took monastic vows in 1967 and lived as a nun until her repose.