You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Chinese. (August 2014) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Chinese Wikipedia article at [[:zh:昭聖太后]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|zh|昭聖太后}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Empress Dowager Ma (1578–1669), personal name unknown, formally known as Empress Dowager Zhaosheng ( Chinese: 昭聖太后), was an empress dowager of the Chinese Southern Ming dynasty. ^[1] 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

References