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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.
Sources diverge leading up to the time of King Arthur, with Caradoc placed either during the time of Arthur (as in the Welsh Triads, and later tradition), soon before Gorlois (Carew's Survey of Cornwall), or before his brother Dionotus as Caradocus in the Historia Regum Britanniae, while the Book of Baglan only keeps Gorlois, but gives him an entirely different set of ancestors.
Saint Ursula Conan Meriadoc ( / ˈ k oʊ n ən / ; Welsh : Cynan Meiriadog ; Breton : Konan Meriadeg ) is a legendary British Celtic leader credited with founding Brittany . Versions of his story circulated in both Brittany and Great Britain from at least the early 12th century, and supplanted earlier legends of Brittany's foundation.
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.
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.
Ursula's mannerisms and much of her look — the eyeshadow, the swivel, the humor — was inspired by Divine, a Baltimore drag queen who frequently teamed up with filmmaker John Waters, playing ...
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]