Bl. Ursulina of Parma
Blessed Ursulina of Bologna
Feast day: April 7
Born in Parma, Italy, in 1375;
Died in Verona, Italy, in 1410
Virgin and visionary. A young woman of Parma, Italy, she received visions and experienced ecstasies.
Ursulina was much like Saint Catherine of Siena. She was a mystic accustomed to visions and ecstasies. At age 15, in response to a supernatural voice, Ursulina tried to end the scandals of the "Babylonian Captivity" of Avignon by visiting the antipope Clement VII to persuade him to give up the throne. Unsuccessful, she next went to Rome to ask Pope Boniface IX to resign, and then back again to petition Clement. After a pilgrimage to Rome and the Holy Land, she returned home and narrowly escaped being burned as a sorceress during a civil war in Parma. She fled to Bologna, where she lived for a time before retiring to Verona
Blessed Ursulina of Bologna
Feast day: April 7
Born in Parma, Italy, in 1375;
Died in Verona, Italy, in 1410
Virgin and visionary. A young woman of Parma, Italy, she received visions and experienced ecstasies.
Ursulina was much like Saint Catherine of Siena. She was a mystic accustomed to visions and ecstasies. At age 15, in response to a supernatural voice, Ursulina tried to end the scandals of the "Babylonian Captivity" of Avignon by visiting the antipope Clement VII to persuade him to give up the throne. Unsuccessful, she next went to Rome to ask Pope Boniface IX to resign, and then back again to petition Clement. After a pilgrimage to Rome and the Holy Land, she returned home and narrowly escaped being burned as a sorceress during a civil war in Parma. She fled to Bologna, where she lived for a time before retiring to Verona
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