12 Facts About Ursulines

Ursulines, known as the Order of Saint Ursula, is an enclosed religious order of consecrated women that branched off from the Angelines, known as the Company of Saint Ursula, in 1572.

The entire group of Ursulines were the first Roman Catholic nuns in what is the United States.

The Ursulines Order followed him to Elphin, first to Summerhill in Athlone and then to Sligo.

Ursulines raffled his carriage to raise funds to compensate the sisters for the financial loss they suffered by removing to Sligo.

In 1952 the Ursulines established St Angela's College, Sligo for the training of students and teachers in Home Economics, which became recognised college of the National University of Ireland in 1978, and since 2003 is a College of the National University of Ireland, Galway.

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In 1919, the Ursulines founded a university-level liberal arts college for women in London, Ontario, Canada.

The Ursulines ministered within the schoolhouse from 1927 to 1930, followed by the Glen Riddle Franciscan Sisters of Saint Francis of Philadelphia.

Mount Saint Joseph Junior College for Women operated between 1925 and 1950 in Maple Mount, Kentucky, with the Ursulines offering co-educational extension courses at Owensboro.

The Ursulines merged their extension courses with Mount Saint Joseph Junior College in 1950, creating the co-educational Brescia University that remains in operation.

In 1966, the Ursulines established in Taiwan what became the Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages.

Ursulines have St Ursula's Convent School in Greenwich which educates girls aged 11 to 16 and coeducational Ursuline College, Westgate-on-Sea.

In Indonesia, the Ursulines established the Princess Juliana School in Batavia, after its initial establishment as an Ursuline Convent in 1859.