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date , 283 , 383 , 451 , and 640 . has been assigned by different writers to 238 arrow shot with arrows ; depicted accompanied by a varied number ; of companions who are being martyred in various ways ; banner ship ; cloak ; clock ; maiden october 21 100 px catholic church orthodox church cologne , students , binangonan , rizal , delphi , england , archers , orphans virgin and martyr church of st. ursula , cologne carlo crivelli 041.jpg saint ursula
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saint ursula

saint ursula -lrb- latin for ` little female bear ' -rrb- is a romano-british christian saint .
her feast day in the pre-1970 general roman calendar is october 21 .
because of the lack of definite information about the anonymous group of holy virgins who on some uncertain date were killed at cologne , their commemoration was omitted from the general roman calendar when it was revised in 1969 , but they have been kept in the roman martyrology .
her legend , probably not historical , is that 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 .
she headed for rome with her followers and persuaded the pope , cyriacus -lrb- unknown in the pontifical records , though from late 384 there was a pope siricius -rrb- , and sulpicius , bishop of ravenna , to join them .
after setting out for cologne , which was being besieged by huns , all the virgins were beheaded in a massacre .
the huns ' leader shot ursula dead , in about 383 -lrb- the date varies -rrb- .
