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![[Saint Ursula]](http://saints.sqpn.com/stu01005.jpg "29kb jpg photograph of the Saint Ursula stained glass window, Saint Joseph's Cathedral, Macon, Georgia, USA; artist unknown; photographed by the author, summer 2003")
- 21 October
- removed from the universal calendar in 1969
Profile
Legendary princess, the daughter of a Christian British king. She travelled Europe in company of either 11 or 11,000 fellow maidens; the 11,000 number probably resulted from a misreading of the term “11M” which indicated 11 Martyrs, but which a copyist took for a Roman numeral. Ursula and her company were tortured to death to get them to renounce their faith, and old paintings of them show many of the women being killed in various painful ways. Namesake for the Ursuline Order, founded for the education of young Catholic girls and women.
- British Virgin Islands
- Catholic education (especially of girls)
- Cologne, Germany
- educators
- holy death
- schoolchildren
- students
- teachers
- University of Paris
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- banner
- cloak
- clock
- maiden shot with arrows, often accompanied by a varied number of companions who are being martyred in assorted, often creative ways
- ship
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Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Saint Ursula
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Ursulines
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Ursulines of Quebec
- Christian Iconography, J R Stracke,Augusta State University
- Ecole Glossary, by Karen Rae Keck
- Katherine Rabenstein
- Golden Legend, by Jacobus de Voragine
- In God’s Garden, by Amy Steedman
- Miniature Stories of the Saints
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
- Pictorial Lives of the Saints
- The Dream of Saint Ursula, by John Ruskin
- The Story of Saint Ursula, by John Ruskin
MLA Citation
- “Saint Ursula“. Saints.SQPN.com. 14 April 2013. Web. 22 May 2013. <>
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