Profile
Ursula was a legendary princess and the daughter of a Christian British king and Saint Daria. She traveled 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. She was the namesake for the Ursuline Order, founded for the education of young Catholic girls and women.
There are other saints closely associated with Ursula and her story –
- travelling companions who were martyred with her
– Agnes of Cologne
– Antonia of Cologne
– Artemia
– Calamanda of Calaf
– Cesarius of Cologne
– Cordula
– Cunigunde of Rapperswil
– Cyriacus of Cologne
– Fiolanus of Lucca
– Ignatius of Cologne
– Isala
– James of Antioch
– Mauritius of Cologne
– Martha of Cologne
– Odilia
– Pontius of Cologne
– Sulpitius of Ravenna
– Vincent of Cologne - travelling companion, but escaped the massacre
– Cunera - led by a dove to the lost tomb of Ursula
– Cunibert of Cologne - her mother
– Daria
Died
- 21 October 238 in Cologne, Germany
Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
Patronage
- drapers
- educators
- girls
- holy death
- schoolchildren
- students
- teachers
- unmarried girls and young
- women
- virgins
- Catholic education (especially of girls)
- University of Paris
- British Virgin Islands
- Campogalliano, Italy
- Cologne, Germany
Representation
- arrow
- banner
- cloak
- clock
- ship
- young woman shot with arrows, often accompanied by a varied number of companions, male and female, who are being martyred in assorted, often creative ways
Source: https://catholicsaints.info/saint-ursula/
