Saint Ursula And Companions

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October 21 Saint of the Day Profile Saint Ursula

Profile:

Legendary princess, the daughter of a Christian British king and Saint Daria. 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.

There are other saints closely associated with Ursula and her story, travelling companions who were martyred with her.
• Agnes of Cologne
• Antonia of Cologne
• Calamanda of Calaf
• Cesarius of Cologne
• Cordula
• Cunigunde of Rapperswil
• Cyriacus of Cologne
• Fiolanus of Lucca
• Ignatius of Cologne
• 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
• Cunibert of Cologne and her mother
• Daria

Died
21 October 238 in Cologne, Germany
Patronage
• British Virgin Islands
• Catholic education (especially of girls)
• Cologne, Germany
• holy death
• students, school children
• teachers, educators
• University of Paris
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.

Blog post courtesy:
http://catholicsaints.info/saint-ursula/

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