Feast day: October 21

St. Ursula & Companions

Virgins, Martyrs · d. c. 383

Patron of Students, teachers

By tradition a British princess who, with a company of consecrated virgins, was massacred by raiders at Cologne while on pilgrimage rather than betray her faith and vows.

Her legend so captured medieval Europe that St. Angela Merici named the great teaching order of Ursuline sisters after her.