Saint Angela Merici

Angela’s parents and sister died when Angela was young. Jesus helped her through lots of hard times and Angela grew to love Jesus very much and promised to spend the rest of her life serving Jesus. When she was about 22 years old, Angela began to notice that the children of her town did not know a lot about Jesus. Angela asked some of her friends to help her teach religion classes. This was the beginning of the first order of sisters to ever open schools for children. Angela and these sisters promised to live only for God and they started the Ursuline Order. Angela asked St. Ursula to keep all of the sisters safe and this is how they got their name. The Ursuline Sisters went to many countries, including Canada. The order continues to work for Jesus and his Church, especially teaching children and young adults.