Empress Dowager Ma (Southern Ming)
Ming Dynasty empress dowager
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| Intro | Ming Dynasty empress dowager | ||
| Places | China | ||
| is | Noble | ||
| Work field | Royals | ||
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| Religion: | Catholicism | ||
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Empress Dowager Ma (1578–1669), personal name unknown, formally known as Empress Dowager Zhaosheng (昭聖太后), was an empress dowager of the Southern Ming Dynasty. She was the birth mother of the Yongli Emperor. She converted to Roman Catholicism and adopted the name Maria.