Angela MERICI, foundress of the Ursulines
Saint Angela Merici was born in 1474 in the prosperous and coveted Italy at the end of the 15th century.
- Woman of prayer, full of love to Christ.
- Woman of heart, open to the society’s problems and, along other seculars, working to remedy them.
- Woman of peace, reconciling and creating unity in the hearts.
Rooted in her environment, she has a realistic look towards her time. With an amazing ability to implicate, she works hard to transmit everyone her message of hope and happy that make her live.
… Her heart fixed in God, Angela Merici throws herself into action without a doubt…
After her, the Ursulines chose to participate, according to their place and time, in different activities: the announcement of the Word of God, especially to young people; the initiation to prayer and the sacraments; education in every form…
Extract from the reference text for the educative communities of the orders’ establishments.