Wednesday, 27 January 2021

St Angela Merici and her Company

St Angela Merici Pray for us

Today is the feast day of St Angela Merici who is the founder of the Ursulines who have played an important role in the life of St Peter's and St Thomas More Cathedral Parish in Lancaster. Sisters Jayne, Katharine and Zela left in 2016 to moved to Greenwich to continue their ministry there,

Urusline sisters and Fr Steve October 2016

St Angela was also the founder of the Company of St Ursula, below are the first two women in the UK to join the Company 479 years after St Angela formed the Company.  They live their life as consecrated women sharing their gifts and giving service to those around them. 

The first English members of the Company of St Ursula
Sr Zela, Marie, Canon Roscillo, Marie and Myia

Below a video about the life of St Angela Merici