Angela Merici, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Angela Merici

Foundress of the Ursulines

Date of Birth: 21-Mar-1474

Place of Birth: Desenzano del Garda, Lombardy, Italy

Date of Death: 27-Jan-1540

Profession: nun

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Angela Merici or Angela de Merici ( m?-REE-chee, Italian: ['and?ela (de) me'ri?t?i]; 21 March 1474 – 27 January 1540) was an Italian religious educator, who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church.
She founded the Company of St.
Ursula in 1535 in Brescia, in which women dedicated their lives to the service of the Church through the education of girls.
From this organisation later sprang the monastic Order of Ursulines, whose nuns established places of prayer and learning throughout Europe and, later, worldwide, most notably in North America.