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St Ursula
Saturday 21 October 2005
(the date changes according to the year)
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* Patron saint of teachers and youths. Her almost completely fictitious legend is as follows. Ursula was the daughter of a Christian British king.
**She had taken a vow of chasity, and yet against her will she was betrothed to a pagan prince. To avoid war she agreed on condition of his conversion and a delay of three years.
***She set sail accompanied by 11,000 virgins (up from 11 in earlier versions of the story), and arrived in Cologne, when an angel advised her to take a pilgrimage to Rome. When they returned from the pilgrimage, Cologne was being sacked by the Huns, who slaughtered the virgins after Ursula refused the advances of a Hun prince. (shagtown.com)
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