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Mar 21, 1474 Desenzano del Garda, Lombardy, Italy Died on 27 Jan 1540 (aged 65)
Foundress of the Ursulines
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About Angela Merici
- Angela Merici or Angela de Merici ( m?-REE-chee, Italian: ['and?ela (de) me'ri?t?i]; 21 March 1474 – 27 January 1540) was an Italian religious educator, who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church.
- She founded the Company of St.
- Ursula in 1535 in Brescia, in which women dedicated their lives to the service of the Church through the education of girls.
- From this organisation later sprang the monastic Order of Ursulines, whose nuns established places of prayer and learning throughout Europe and, later, worldwide, most notably in North America.
