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The Via Jacobi leads from the Lake of Constance to Geneva, Switzerland. It is a part of the European Way of St. James , a pilgrimage route to the grave of St. James in Santiago de Compostela , Galicia , Spain , one of the oldest religious traditions in Europe .
Ursula Rickenbacher, who sparked the special occasion category with her Ursula of Switzerland label, died Wednesday at her home in Troy, N.Y. Rickenbacher, who was believed to have been in her 80s ...
Lady Westbury was born Ursula Mary Rose James on 6 May 1924 at 21 Park Lane in Mayfair, the home of her maternal grandfather. [1] She was daughter of the Hon. Robert "Bobbie" James (1873–1960), third son of Walter, 2nd Baron Northbourne, and Lady Serena Lumley (1901–2000), only daughter of Aldred, 10th Earl of Scarbrough.
In New York City, in 1873, James Boyce (1826–1876) invited the Ursuline nuns to found a girls' academy in St. Teresa's parish on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The new school, called St. Teresa's Ursuline Academy, located at 137 Henry Street, was incorporated in 1881 and as of 1891 had a faculty of five sisters teaching 62 pupils. [25]
St Ursula's Church, Bern is an Anglican Episcopal church in Bern, Switzerland. The church is one of the ten Anglican chaplaincies in Switzerland that have a resident chaplain and together form the Archdeaconry of Switzerland. [1] St Ursula's has a long tradition of ministry to all English-speaking people in the Canton of Bern and beyond. It ...
Saint Ursula, c. 1650, Italy The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula (German school, 16th century) According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, a 12th-century British cleric and writer, Ursula was the daughter of Dionotus, ruler of Cornwall. However, this may have been based on his misreading of the words Deo notus in the second Passio Ursulae, written about 1105.
The Way of St. James through Europe The Way in France. The Camino de Santiago, also known as the Way of St. James, extends from different countries of Europe, and even North Africa, on its way to Santiago de Compostela and Finisterre. The local authorities try to restore many of the ancient routes, even those used in a limited period, in the ...
Lutz was born on 30 March 1895 to Johannes and Ursula Lutz in Walzenhausen, Switzerland, in the mountains of the canton of Appenzell in the northeast of Switzerland, and attended local schools. [1] [3] His father owned a sandstone quarry. [1] In 1909 his mother died of tuberculosis when he was fourteen years old. [1]