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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.
Some members joined other religious orders, including the Sisters of Charity of New York. Sisters of St. Dominic of Amityville - The Sisters, whose motherhouse is located in Amityville, New York, ran the St. Joseph Sanitarium in Forestburgh in Sullivan County, which was the summer retreat of Cardinal Patrick Hayes. The facility closed in 1970.
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.
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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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