SAINTS - URSULA Saint Ursula (here depicted with her many virgin companions, sheltering beneath her cloak) was a virgin martyr of the 4th century, about which little is known, but concerning which mythology hs furnished many tales. By the tenth century, it was told that she was murdered for her faith, along with 11,000 companions, in Cologne. This impossible number is said to have arisen from a mistaken interpretation of the Latin short-form, XI MV, which might (with some imagination) be read as XI [that is, 11] M [that is, 1,000] V (Virgines]. The popular expansion of this numerous martyrdo
SAINTS - URSULA Saint Ursula (here depicted with her many virgin companions, sheltering beneath her cloak) was a virgin martyr of the 4th century, about which little is known, but concerning which mythology hs furnished many tales. By the tenth century, it was told that she was murdered for her faith, along with 11,000 companions, in Cologne. This impossible number is said to have arisen from a mistaken interpretation of the Latin short-form, XI MV, which might (with some imagination) be read as XI [that is, 11] M [that is, 1,000] V (Virgines]. The popular expansion of this numerous martyrdom is found in Voragine's Christian mythology, The Golden Legend. Process print, from Alban Butler's The Lives of The Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principles Saints, edition of circa 1928.
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