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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.
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.
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.
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In 1966 the Academy of St. Ursula became John A. Coleman Catholic High School, which in 1968 moved to a larger campus in Hurley. In 1968 the sisters established the Linwood Spiritual Center retreat house in Rhinebeck, New York. In 1984 the Society arrived in the Diocese of Raleigh (North Carolina) where sisters serve in Wilmington and Jacksonville.
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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Alternatively, Saint Dorothea is depicted with the attribute of Saint Ursula, an arrow, in her hands. [1] Paintings of the four main virgins usually represent a form of the type Virgo inter Virgines , where several virgin martyrs beside the Virgin are sitting, on a bench or bank or on the ground, usually in a garden setting within an enclosure ...