Indeed many have had "problems" with the legend. My understanding is that
Ursula and her companions have had their sanctity nullified on the grounds
that the story is spurious (not to mention problems with the number
11,000).
-Scott B. Montgomery
the University of Iowa
>I am bothered by these ladies. 11,000? It takes a long time to
>count 11,000 of anything (ask any Librarian)
>
>I would expect to find in a martyrology something like this
>
>
>Idibus mensis (or whatever) Sae Ursulae & XI MM VV sociiarum
>
>
>Eleven *millia*? or eleven *martyrum*?
>
>I do not want to spoil a good story. But it seems to me just too
>good...
>
>
>That Princess Ursula (news to me she was British, but hooray)
>should have eleven travelling companions (Special Branch, no doubt)
>seems fair enough: very improper for a young lady (or even a lady)
>to travel medievally with much less. But 11,000...
>
>
>a.c.
>The dog-like Anselm
>
>
>
>Anselm Cramer OSB
>Monastery Librarian
>Ampleforth Abbey, York
>GB - YO6 4EN
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