Legend tells that Princess Ursula was an Englishwoman (Ursula means “little she-bear” in Latin). She asked her father’s permission to set out by ship with her betrothed and with 11,000 women companions. According to the evidence at the church in Cologne, those companions were probably only eleven in number. She set out for Rome, with her followers accompanying her. She went to Rome and invited the Pope to travel with her. She reached Cologne, and her companions were put to death by the Huns in a great massacre, in which Ursula herself was killed by an arrow from a bow. Her feast day is the 21 October She is a saint who was a virgin and a martyr.