Sister Yelizaveta Alexeyevich Golitsyna was a Russian noble and Roman Catholic nun, who converted to Roman Catholicism from Russian Orthodoxy.
Background
Yelizaveta Golitsyna was born 22 February 1797 in Saint St. Petersburg, Russia to the family of Prince Alexei Andreevich Golitsyn and Princess Alexandra Golitsyna. When she was 15, she learned that her mother and aunt converted to Catholicism.
Career
Golitsyna took the veil in the city of Metz in 1826, and made her first vows in Rome in 1828. Her final vows were taken in Paris in 1832. Mother Barat highly valued the assistance of Golitsyna.
After the General Council in 1839, Golitsyna was appointed Assistant General and sent to visit the American houses.
In May 1841, the first Religious arrived. A school was opened at the corner of Houston and Mulberry streets, in Manhattan, then in Astoria, and finally at Manhattanville.
During her stay in New York, Mother Gallitzin was a guest of the Parmentier family, noted New York philanthropists, at their Bridge Street mansion in Brooklyn. In 1842 Madame Gallitzin founded establishments in the Pottawattamie missions, and at McSherrystown, Maryland.
Mother Elizabeth died of yellow fever, at the age of 47, on 26 November 1844 in New Orleans, Louisiana.