It is proved that the isometry classes of pointed connected complete Riemannian n xA0;-manifolds form a Polish space, xl.gif" data-inlimgeid="1-s2.0-S0166864115004964-si1.gif">, with the topology described by the xt stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0166864115004964&_mathId=si2.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0166864115004964&_rdoc=1&_issn=01668641&md5=4588b91334d871bb17ecb09a1a2140ff" title="Click to view the MathML source">C∞ convergence of manifolds. This space has a canonical partition into sets defined by varying the distinguished point into each manifold. The locally non-periodic manifolds define an open dense subspace xl.gif" data-inlimgeid="1-s2.0-S0166864115004964-si3.gif">, which becomes a xt stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0166864115004964&_mathId=si2.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0166864115004964&_rdoc=1&_issn=01668641&md5=4588b91334d871bb17ecb09a1a2140ff" title="Click to view the MathML source">C∞ foliated space with the restriction of the canonical partition. Its leaves without holonomy form the subspace xl.gif" data-inlimgeid="1-s2.0-S0166864115004964-si4.gif"> defined by the non-periodic manifolds. Moreover the leaves have a natural Riemannian structure so that xl.gif" data-inlimgeid="1-s2.0-S0166864115004964-si5.gif"> becomes a Riemannian foliated space, which is universal among all sequential Riemannian foliated spaces satisfying certain property called covering-determination. xl.gif" data-inlimgeid="1-s2.0-S0166864115004964-si5.gif"> is used to characterize the realization of complete connected Riemannian manifolds as dense leaves of covering-determined compact sequential Riemannian foliated spaces.