Miss Tolstoy, Novelist's Kin, Becomes Catholic
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23
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August
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1952
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Marie Tolstoy, granddaughter of Russia's world-renowned novelist, Count Leo Tolstoy, was converted to Roman Catholicism while teaching Russian and Slavic languages in the University summer session.
Miss Tolstoy, born in Russia, was baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church, a body which split with the Roman Catholics in 1054.
Exiled by the Communist revolution, she lived in Czechoslovakia until 1940 when she came to the United States.
She said she had been contemplating the religious step for two years. She took her religious instruction from Rev. Joseph Jacyna, assistant at St. Mary's Student Chapel.