During World War II, Princess of Ileana of Romania built a hospital in memory of her mother, Queen Marie, at the foot of her castle of Bran, Romania. As both nurse and hospital administrator, she devoted herself to the care of the war-wounded and lovingly served the surrounding population. Subsisting and still working at the hospital, it was here she witnessed the end of the war and the communist takeover in August 1944. Princess Ileana eventually moved to America, became a nun (taking the name Mother Alexandra), founded the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, and reposed there in 1991.
