Ursula

Ursula
(? third century)
   Legendary Saint.
   The story of St Ursula goes back to the fourth century and has its origin in Cologne, Germany. According to one version, she was a British princess who made a pilgrimage to Rome accompanied by eleven thousand virgins. They were all massacred in Cologne by the Huns (alternatively in the persecution of Maximinus in 235). She was the favourite saint of St angela merici, who founded the Ursuline teaching order in her honour. Today the Ursulines are the largest teaching order in the Roman Catholic Church.
   M. Aron, The Ursulines (1947);
   T.F. Tout, ‘The legend of St Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins’, in Historical Essays by Members of Owen’s College, Manchester (1902).

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