Feliksa Magdalena Kozlowska (27 May 1862 – 23 August 1921), known by the religious name Maria Franciszka and the epithet "Mateczka", was a Polish Christian mystic and visionary who founded a movement of renewal in the Roman Catholic church in the Russian Partition of Poland.
It was to follow the simplicity of the life of Mary, mother of Jesus.
Early in the 20th-century, the movement was excommunicated and became an autonomous church in fellowship with the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands.
In 1935 it split in two and became the Old Catholic Mariavite Church and the Catholic Mariavite Church.
Both denominations were part of a single schism from the Catholic Church which declared it as heretical in 1906.
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