Ursula was a Romano-British virgin and martyr possibly of royal origin. She is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church and the Anglican Communion. Her feast day in the pre
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Hans Memling, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula
Saint Ursula, c. 1650, Italy
The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula (German school, 16th century)
Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium was the Roman colony in the Rhineland from which the city of Cologne, now in Germany, developed.
Saint Ursula
…is little information about Ursula or the anonymous group of holy virgins who accompanied her and, on an uncertain date, were killed along with her at Colonia Agrippina. They remain in the Roman Martyrology, although their commemoration does not appear in the simplified General Roman Calendar of the 1970 Missale Romanum…
Tower 13, so-called "Roman tower" northwest corner of the CCAA
Ubiermonument (c. AD 4) in the Archaeological Zone
Reconstructed model of the Capitoline Temple (early 2nd century AD), today site of the church St. Maria im Kapitol
CCAA inscription above the north gate next to the cathedral