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How did Saint Ursula become saint?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Saint Ursula and the Ten Thousand Virgins are said to have drowned themselves to avoid forced marriage. Christopher Columbus was reminded of this legend when he saw what he took to be hundreds of small islands in the Caribbean Sea, naming them the Virgin Islands.

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