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Saint Ursula is a Romano-British Christian saint
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Saint Ursula is a Romano-British Christian saint. she was a princess who, at the request of her father King Dionotus of Dumnonia in south-west Britain, set sail to join her future husband, the pagan governor Conan Meriadoc of Armorica, along with 11,000 virginal handmaidens. After a miraculous storm brought them over the sea in a single day to a Gaulish port, Ursula declared that before her marriage she would undertake a pan-European pilgrimage. After setting out for Cologne, which was being besieged by Huns, all the virgins were beheaded in a massacre. The Huns' leader fatally shot Ursula with a bow and arrow in about 383
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Photo12/Ann Ronan Picture Library
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ARP23A12_203
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Droits gérés
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180,0Mo (5,5Mo) / 53,5cm x 84,3cm / 6322 x 9952 (300dpi)