Enter a word or phrase in any language 👆
Language:
Translation and analysis of words by ChatGPT artificial intelligence
On this page you can get a detailed analysis of a word or phrase, produced by the best artificial intelligence technology to date:
- how the word is used
- frequency of use
- it is used more often in oral or written speech
- word translation options
- usage examples (several phrases with translation)
- etymology
What (who) is Ursuline - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Ursuline Academy; Ursuline Academy (disambiguation); Ursuline (disambiguation)
Ursuline
['?:sj?l??n, -l?n]
¦ noun a nun of an order founded in northern Italy in 1535 for nursing the sick and teaching girls.
¦ adjective relating to this order.
Origin
from St Ursula, the founder's patron saint, + -ine1.
Ursuline
·adj Of or pertaining to St. Ursula, or the order of Ursulines; as, the Ursuline nuns.
II. Ursuline ·noun One of an order of nuns founded by St. Angela Merici, at Brescia, in Italy, about the year 1537, and so called from St. Ursula, under whose protection it was placed. The order was introduced into Canada as early as 1639, and into the United States in 1727. The members are devoted entirely to education.
Ursuline Convent riots
.jpg?width=200 "Burning of the nunnery")
![Old map of Somerville showing the convent ruins marked on Benedict Hill, formerly located between Broadway and the [[Middlesex Canal]]. This location is now at Michigan Ave in The States neighborhood near [[Interstate 93]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Martin Draper - Convent ruins on Mount Benedict, Somerville, Boston, 1852.jpg?width=200 "Old map of Somerville showing the convent ruins marked on Benedict Hill, formerly located between Broadway and the [[Middlesex Canal]]. This location is now at Michigan Ave in The States neighborhood near [[Interstate 93]].")
MOB VIOLENCE AND DESTRUCTION OF CATHOLIC CONVENT IN 1830S BOSTON
Ursuline Convent Riots
The Ursuline Convent riots occurred August 11 and 12, 1834, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, near Boston, in what is now Somerville, Massachusetts. During the riot, a convent of Roman Catholic Ursuline nuns was burned down by a Protestant mob.
Wikipedia
Ursuline
Ursuline may refer to:
- Ursulines, Catholic religious institutes that have been deeply involved in education
Examples of use of Ursuline
1. The Landrieu girls went to Ursuline Academy; most of the boys to a high school run by Jesuits.
2. Beatrice Leung is a Catholic nun and professor of international affairs at the Wenzao Ursuline College of Taiwan.
3. Lucy, who juggled her studies with playing guitar in an indie music band, attended St Angela‘s Ursuline School in Forest Gate, East London.
4. He also rebuilt the town hall, another two hospitals, buildings on either side of the cathedral, a boys school and a chapel for the Ursuline nuns.
5. A year later, in March 1804, the Ursuline nuns wrote to Thomas Jefferson, the President who had bought Louisiana from Napoleon, requesting an Act of Congress that would guarantee their property and rights.