Ursula
(† c. 383)
Martyr, Virgin
Place of birth:Kingdom of Dumnonia†
Place of death:Province of Germania Prima (Diocese of Gaul) (Roman Empire)††
Feastday
21 October
Patronage
Patron of:Binangonan, Rizal†††; Cologne††††; England†††††; Gozo††††††
Patron of:archers, female students, orphans, schoolgirls, tailors, teachers, universities
Invoked against:plague
†Myghterneth Kernow / Regnum Dumnoniorum [78–c. 936]
††Provincia Germania Prima (Dioecēsis Galliarum) (Imperium Romanum) επαρχία Πρώτη Γερμανίας (Διοίκηση Γαλατίας) (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων) [297–475]
†††Bayan ng Binangonan
††††Köln / Kölle
†††††Englaland / Engla londe / Sasunn / Lloegr
††††††Għawdex / Γαῦλος / Gaudos
Saints
This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.
The names of the saints are listed as they would have appeared in the time the saint lived (to the best I can determine). Click on the saint’s name in the list to see more information about that saint. If you wish to see saints for a different date, select that date below. Or you can select a saint by their name or by places they are associated with.
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Sources
Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:
D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.
Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.
Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.
Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990
and the following websites:
and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia