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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 \Ur"su*line\, a. Of or pertaining to St. Ursula, or the order of Ursulines; as, the Ursuline nuns.
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The word Ursuline is used to describe the following:
- The Ursulines, a Catholic religious institute.
- The :fr:Studio des Ursulines, an art house cinema in Paris.
Several schools named after the Ursuline religious institute, including several named Ursuline Academy.
Ursuline Academy or similar may refer to:
in Canada- École des Ursulines, Quebec
- Ursuline College, Westgate-on-Sea, a specialist sports school, run within the Ursuline religious institute
- Ursuline High School (Wimbledon), an all-girls Catholic school in Wimbledon, London, run by the Ursulines
- Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School, an all-girls Catholic school in Brentwood England, founded by Sr Clare separately from the rest of the institute
- Ursuline Academy Ilford, a Catholic Girls school and specialist science school, situated in Ilford, north east London
- Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages, a languages school in Kaohsiung, run by the Ursulines
in the United States (by state then city)
- Ursuline Academy (Delaware)
- Ursuline Academy (Illinois)
- Ursuline Academy (New Orleans, Louisiana)
- Ursuline Academy (Dedham, Massachusetts), an all-girls Catholic school in Dedham, Massachusetts, run by the Ursulines
- Ursuline Academy (St. Louis, Missouri)
- Ursuline Academy (Great Falls, Montana), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Cascade County, Montana
- Ursuline Campus Schools, a group of five schools in Louisville, Kentucky run by the Ursulines
- The Ursuline School (New Rochelle, New York)
- The College of New Rochelle, in New Rochelle, New York
- Ursuline Academy (Cincinnati, Ohio)
- Ursuline College, a women's college in Pepper Pike, Ohio, run by the Ursulines
- Ursuline College, a women's college formerly existing in New Orleans, which was run by the Ursulines
- St. Ursula Academy (Toledo, Ohio), an all-girls Catholic school in Toledo, Ohio, run by the Ursulines
- Ursuline High School, a co-ed Catholic school in Youngstown, Ohio
- Ursuline Academy (Pittsburgh), in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a Pittsburgh Landmark
- Ursuline Academy of Dallas, an all-girls Catholic school in Dallas, Texas, run by the Ursulines
- Ursuline Academy (San Antonio, Texas), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bexar County, Texas
- Saint Ursula Villa School (Cincinnati, Ohio), a K-8 Catholic school run under the Ursuline tradition.
Usage examples of "ursuline".
This man, who was a canon of the collegiate church of Sainte-Croix and director of the Ursuline convent, will have an important part to play in the following narrative.
We have already said that Mignon was the director of the convent of Ursulines at Loudun: Now the Ursuline order was quite modern, for the historic controversies to which the slightest mention of the martyrdom of St.
Mignon let the gossip go its rounds for several months without giving it any fresh food, but at length, when the time was ripe, he called on the priest of Saint-Jacques at Chinon, and told him that matters had now come to such a pass in the Ursuline convent that he felt it impossible to bear up alone under the responsibility of caring for the salvation of the afflicted nuns, and he begged him to accompany him to the convent.
At length, on Monday, the 11th of October, 1632, they wrote to the priest of Venier, to Messire Guillaume Cerisay de la Gueriniere, bailiff of the Loudenois, and to Messire Louis Chauvet, civil lieutenant, begging them to visit the Ursuline convent, in order to examine two nuns who were possessed by evil spirits, and to verify the strange and almost incredible manifestations of this possession.
Anne of Austria, had heard so many conflicting accounts of the possession of the Ursuline nuns, that she desired, for her own edification, to get to the bottom of the affair.
CHAPTER VIII The exposure of the plot was most prejudicial to the prosperity of the Ursuline community: spurious possession, far from bringing to their convent an increase of subscriptions and enhancing their reputation, as Mignon had promised, had ended for them in open shame, while in private they suffered from straitened circumstances, for the parents of their boarders hastened to withdraw their daughters from the convent, and the nuns in losing their pupils lost their sole source of income.
Laubardemont being present in the church of Sainte-Croix of Loudun, to continue the exorcisms of the Ursuline nuns, by order of M, de Laubardemont, commissioner, Urbain Grandier, priest-in-charge, accused and denounced as a magician by the said possessed nuns, was brought from his prison to the said church.
Urbain Grandier duly accused and convicted of the crimes of magic and witchcraft, and of causing the persons of certain Ursuline nuns of this town and of other females to become possessed of evil spirits, wherefrom other crimes and offences have resulted.
Laubardemont, by beating him with their halberts, the procession resumed its march, to go through the same ceremony at the Ursuline church, and from there to proceed to the square of SainteCroix.
If she had to spend three years in the Ursuline Convent doing penance, she would do it.
Deacon Ursuline and her people had been industrious in the weeks since he had taken the chieftainship of Rikin.
Deacon Ursuline and Papa Otto had averted their eyes, careful not to be seen noticing his weakness.
To show his displeasure he chose the healthiest looking child from their group to send to Mother Ursuline at Rikin Fjord as an acolyte.
Deacon Ursuline was among those who came to the strand to greet him, and she looked hale and healthy, as did all those who labored in the fields and pastures.
Lawrence in long boats through the wilderness to a little hill on Lake Onondaga, where a palisaded fort was built, and the lilies of France, embroidered on a white silk flag by the Ursuline nuns, flung from the breeze above the Iroquois land.