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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.
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.
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.
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]
Saint Condedus (Condé, Condède), a hermit at Fontaine-de-Saint-Valéry in the north of France (c. 690) [10] [21] [note 17] Saint Wendelin of Trier ( Wendolinus, Wendel ), a shepherd who was famous for his holiness and is venerated at St Wendel on the Nahe in the west of Germany (7th century) [ 21 ] [ note 18 ]
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 ...