Empress Dowager Ma (Southern Ming)

Empress Dowager Ma (1578–1669), personal name unknown, formally known as Empress Dowager Zhaosheng (), was an empress dowager of the Chinese Southern Ming dynasty.Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Sue Wiles: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 1: The Qing Period, 1644-1911 She was a Sichuanese native and the birth mother of the Yongli Emperor. She converted to Roman Catholicism and adopted the name Maria.

See also Catholic Church in China Catholic Church in Sichuan

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