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St. Ursula
- Martyr
Died - c.383
Feastday
- 21 October
Sculptor
- Augustine Cornacchini
The statue was destroyed
by lightning 5 October 1753. It was rebuilt the
following year by Cornacchini.
Statue
created - 1754
The original was part of a group of 16 statues
erected between July and December 1668.
Height
- 3.1 m. (10ft 4in) travertine
She is shown wrapped in a
large cloak. Her left hand supports the palm of
martyrdom, while her right holds a flag, now fragmentary.
She was
among a group of holy virgins who were killed in Cologne. Due
to a lack of definite information, her commemoration was
omitted from the General Roman Calendar when it was revised in
1969, but kept in the Roman Martyrology
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10. Clare and 9. Ursula
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10. Clare, 9. Ursula and 8. Agatha
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Sources:
Roma Sacra - San Pietro in Vaticano, Itineraries 21-22, ©Fabbrica
of St. Peter's, July 2001
Le Statue Berniniani del Colonnato di San Pietro by Valentino
Martinelli ©1987 by de Luca
Editore s.t.l.
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