Saint Ursula
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21 October
removed from the universal calendar in 1969
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- Legendary princess, the daughter of a Christian British king.
She travelled Europe in company of either 11 or 11,000 fellow maidens; it is believed that the 11,000 number 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.
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Cologne, Germany
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University of Paris
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maiden shot with arrows, often accompanied by a varied number of companions who are being martyred in assorted, often creative ways
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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
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Ecole Glossary, by Karen Rae Keck
Golden Legend, by Jacobus de Voragine
Google Directory
In God's Garden, by Amy Steedman
Miniature Stories of the Saints
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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