Addendum to “Ursula”

There is a saint named Ursula in the Roman Martyrology. So Ursula could also be an asteroid of the theme of Catholic mythology. Saint Ursula was a virgin and martyr and the Virgin Islands are named in her honour. Saint Ursula originally was a princess, who should marry, but didn’t want to because her parents didn’t choose a christian husband for her. So Ursula went on a pilgrimage with her entourage of eleven-thousand other virgins. The Huns stopped the tour at Cologne because the Huns found that these women were good wives for their whole tribe. Ursula already fled from becoming married with a prince, so she certainly wouldn’t become the wife of any of those savages. So the Huns killed her whole entourage in front of her eyes and finally herself with an arrow through her heart. I went so much in details here only because the way she died seems to be very symbolic. She can hint to death by an arrow, but that the arrow went through her heart is probably more important. A huge entourage belongs to Ursula’s possible features too.

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