Embroidery Work On Silk In Honor Of Sainte Ursule

Very refined work of painted silk and embroidered with silk thread embellished with small pearls, all in the effigy of Sainte Ursule. Nineteenth time. The story of Saint Ursula is difficult to verify due to reliable written testimony. We know that a young girl named Ursule, daughter of a Breton Christian king, lived at the very end of the 3rd and the beginning of the 4th century. We also know that this young girl, as well as several others, would have been proposed in marriage by a pagan prince of Germanic origin. But since Ursule wanted to remain a virgin and Christian, her refusal could attract serious reprisals for her father. Ursule and his friends - ten virgins - therefore decided to flee and set off on an adventure. The girls would have gone on a pilgrimage to Rome for 3 years, then embarked on a ship on the Rhine. A storm would have thrown them on the banks of the Rhine where they would have been captured in Cologne (Germany) by the Huns, then martyred and riddled with arrows because they did not want to betray their faith. The young girls were buried in a church in Cologne.