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The street in London called St Mary Axe is named after the Church of St Mary Axe, originally dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin, Saint Ursula and the 11,000 virgins. It was demolished in the late 16th century; the site is located close to where the skyscraper informally known as The Gherkin now stands.
Dionotus, Saint Ursula's father, in a 1495 painting by Vittore Carpaccio Dionotus was a legendary king of Cornwall in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae, an account of the rulers of Britain based on ancient Welsh sources and disputed by many historians.
In 1925 the Sisters established the Academy of St. Ursula at "Marygrove" near Kingston Point in Ulster County, New York, and in 1943 began to staff St. Joseph's parochial school in the city of Kingston. [6] In 1966 the Academy of St. Ursula became John A. Coleman Catholic High School, which in 1968 moved to a larger campus in Hurley.
Flag of St Piran, used as a flag of Cornwall St Piran portrayed in a stained glass window in Truro Cathedral. This is a list of Cornish saints, including saints more loosely associated with Cornwall: many of them will have links to sites elsewhere in regions with significant ancient British history, such as Wales, Brittany or Devon.
The Walter Hand House is located on Angola Road in Cornwall, New York, United States.It is the main building of a five-acre (2 ha) former farm, built around 1870, to serve as both a farmhouse and summer boardinghouse, in response to Cornwall's growing popularity as a summer resort town.
During the year of her death, Avoye went to Cornwall to assist her aunt Saint Ursula at her wedding. [5] [6] There, Avoye discovered that Ursula had also consecrated herself to God and intended to remain a virgin. [5] The two fled to Cologne, Germany, where Ursula and her companions were martyred by a band of barbarians. [5]
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Cordula of Cologne, also known as Saint Cordula, is an apocryphal saint. She was venerated in the Catholic Church as a companion of St. Ursula and her feast day was on 22 October, but she has not been listed in the Roman Martyrology since 1969 due to doubts about her historicity.