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Definition of Ursulines

Ursuline
Ursuline Ur"su*line, n. [Cf. F. ursuline.] (R. C. Ch.) One of an order of nuns founded by St. Angela Merici, at Brescia, in Italy, about the year 1537, and so called from St. Ursula, under whose protection it was placed. The order was introduced into Canada as early as 1639, and into the United States in 1727. The members are devoted entirely to education.
Ursuline
Ursuline Ur"su*line, a. Of or pertaining to St. Ursula, or the order of Ursulines; as, the Ursuline nuns.

Meaning of Ursulines from wikipedia

- operate as a secular institute. The largest group within the Ursulines is the Ursulines of the Roman Union. In 1572 in Milan, under Charles Borromeo,...
- Look up Ursuline in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ursuline may refer to: Ursulines, Catholic religious institutes that have been deeply involved in...
- Virgin, established 1605 Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (Grey Ursulines), est. 1920 (1908) This disambiguation page lists...
- in France caused European Ursulines to pressure their Canadian sisters to return home, adding to Guyart and the Ursulines' stresses, and fears. Such...
- Ursuline College is a private Roman Catholic liberal arts college in Pepper Pike, Ohio. It was founded in 1871 by the Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland and...
- The Ursuline Monastery of Quebec City (French: Monastère des Ursulines de Québec) was founded by a missionary group of Ursuline nuns in 1639 under the...
- The Studio des Ursulines is a cinema in the 5th arrondis****t of Paris, at No.10, Rue des Ursulines. It is one of the oldest cinemas in Paris to have...
- The Ursuline School is an American all-girls', independent, private, Roman Catholic middle and high school located on a 13-acre (53,000 m2) campus in New...
- Trust. The school traces its origins to 1850 when members of the order of Ursulines came to Sligo. The following year they established ‘’Nazareth’’, a free...
- Downs, Wimbledon, London. It was founded in 1892 by the Ursulines and was affiliated with the Ursuline Preparatory School, its previous feeder preparatory...