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Maria Amparo's mother Maria Christina had been married to King Ferdinand VII Of Spain , with whom she had had two daughters as Queen Consort . The eldest was Isabella, who was proclaimed Queen Isabella II Of Spain at the age of 3 upon the death of her father on September 29 , 1833 . His widow Maria Christina (now Queen Regent) married a sergeant from the guard a few months later, on December 28 , 1833, and Maria Amparo was their first child. Her half-sister Isabella was declared Queen Regnant in 1843 , at the age of 13. On March 1 , 1855 , Maria Amparo married Prince Władysław Czartoryski of Poland . They lived at the Hôtel Lambert , the base of operations in the Second French Empire for the exiled Czartoryski Magnate family. She and Prince Władysław had a son, August Franciszek Czartoryski , on August 2 , 1858 . Maria Amparo contracted Tuberculosis , which was unfortunately passed to her son when he was 6. She died shortly thereafter, on August 19, 1864 at the age of 29 in Paris . Her son August (whom they called "Gucio"), as a teenager, was later tutored by Joseph Kalinowski (canonized as Saint Raphael Kalinowski in 1991 ). Though Prince Władysław's desire was that their son pursue a diplomatic career, Gucio defied his family's wishes and joined the Order of the Salesians in 1887 . In 1892 , he was ordained as a priest, although his family discouraged it, and did not attend the ceremony. He died in 1893 of tuberculosis, but his beatification process began in 1921 , and in 2004 , Maria Amparo's son was beatified -- the next step towards being declared a Saint . SEE ALSO REFERENCES
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