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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.
In 1554 her family moved back to England and whilst they were there Clement informed them that she wanted to become a nun. Her parents supported her request and paid for her to join Syon Abbey, but Clement was set upon St Ursula's. Her parents stayed only six years in England before returning to exile in Mechelen. [1]
The other branch is the Company of St. Ursula, commonly called the "Angelines", who follow the original form of life established by their foundress. Ursuline Academy, Springfield, Illinois was founded in 1857 by Mother Mary Joseph Wolfe and operated from 1857 until 2007.
The Angelines, also known as the Company of Saint Ursula or officially the Secular Institute of Saint Angela Merici, is a secular institute of consecrated women in the Catholic Church founded in 1535 by Angela Merici (ca. 1474-1540) in Brescia, Italy. Their primary focus is the education of women and girls, and the care of the sick and needy.
Angela Merici (/ m ə ˈ r iː tʃ i / mə-REE-chee; Italian: [ˈandʒela (de) meˈriːtʃi]; 21 March 1474 – 27 January 1540) was an Italian Catholic religious educator who founded the Company of St. Ursula in 1535 in Brescia, in which women dedicated their lives to the service of the church through the education of girls.
Theo Downes-Le Guin, son of the late author Ursula K. Le Guin, remembers well the second-floor room where his mother worked on some of her most famous novels. Downes-Le Guin, who also serves as ...
Marie Tranchepain, also known as Marie St. Augustin (ca. 1680–1733), was a French woman of the Order of St. Ursula and in 1727 sailed to New Orleans where she became the first Mother Superior of the Old Ursuline Convent. At that time, New Orleans was part of French Louisiana. She established the first school for girls in what is now the ...
As of 2020, the congregation consists of over 900 sisters in 100 communities in 14 countries on five continents: Argentina, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Philippines, Poland, Tanzania, Ukraine, Bolivia and Russia. The motherhouse and shrine of St. Ursula Ledóchowska is located in Pniewy. [1] The generalate is in ...