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	Angela Merici - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Angela Merici was beatified in 1768 by Clement XIII and canonized in 1807 by Pius VII.
		Angela born in Desenzano del Garda, Brescia, near the Lago di Garda (Lake Garda).
		Angela was concerned about life of Girls (that are very un-educated and very down-graded at that time) and all the slums.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Angela_Merici (253 words)

	St. Angela Merici, foundress of Ursuline Sisters
		Angela Merici was born in the small Italian town of Desenzano on the shore of Lake Garda in 1474.
		Angela is said to have had a vision which she determined meant that she was to someday found a society of virgins consecrated to the Lord and doing charitable works.
		Angela and her original company worked out details of the rule of prayer, and promises, and practices by which they were to live.
	www.ursulinesisters.org /angela.htm (863 words)

	St. Angela Merici School - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Angela Merici School is an integral part of the Catholic Church's mission to proclaim the Gospel, build the community, celebrate through worship and serve others.
		Angela Merici Parish School is a Catholic faith community comprised of clergy, administrators, teachers, staff, parents, and students which fosters a Christ-centered environment that integrates our religion with all aspects of living and learning.
		Angela Merici is committed to providing a faith filled, student centered environment and curriculum recognizing each individual's differences and developing their God-given talents and gifts.
	stangelamerici.org /mission.asp (255 words)

	Angela Merici: a great Saint and a great citizen of Desenzano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Angela’s youth was embittered by the loss of her sister, to whom hagiographic tradition connects a vision of the Saint, and by the loss of both of her parents.
		Angela Merici was to remain faithful to her tertiary habit for all of her life and she even wanted to be buried wearing this garment.
		In 1962 St. Angela Merici was proclaimed the principal patron of Desenzano by a decree of the Sacred Congregation of Rites.
	www.onde.net /desenzano/citta/santangela/mostra-eng.htm (2799 words)

	Angela Merici
		Angela Merici was born in Northern Italy and lived on Lake Garda with her parents and sister, her closest companions.
		Angela diligently worked on her father's farm and was also encouraged by her family to develop habits of prayer and fasting -- which she continued to practice her whole life.
		One mid-day during harvest Angela was alone in the fields when she experienced a life-changing vision: the heaven’s opened and angels and young women came toward her singing a melody, surrounded by light.
	www.theursulines.org /angela_merici.htm (431 words)

	St. Angela Merici (1474-1540)
		Angela Merici was born on March 21st, 1474, at Desenzano on Lake Garda; left an orphan at the age of ten she was brought up by her uncle and on his death went to live with her brothers.
		Angela's methods were far removed from the modern idea of a convent school; she preferred to send her associates to teach girls in their own families, and one of her favorite sayings was, 'Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family'.
		Angela Merici is known now as the foundress of the Ursuline nuns- and so she was, but despite her own inclinations.
	www.cin.org /saints/merici.html (235 words)

	St. Angela Merici, Foundress of Ursuline Sisters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Angela Merici was born in the small Italian town of Desenzano on the shore of
		In 1535, the Institute of St. Ursula was formally recognized by the Pope and Angela was accorded the title of foundress.
		Angela Merici died on January 27, 1540, and was canonized a saint of the Church in 1807.
	www.ursulinesisters.org /angela1.htm (857 words)

	Why Choose St. Angela Merici School?
		St. Angela Merici School is conveniently located in a safe and quiet Metairie neighborhood. With an enrollment of about 500 students, St. Angela Merici has two sections of each grade level, which fosters for our family-friendly atmosphere.
		Angela Merici School has received grants for technology totaling over $45,000. In addition to the computer lab and desktops throughout the school, teachers and students have access to a portable computer lab with 17 networked laptop computers.
		St. Angela Merici participates in "Grammer Ball" a popular annual intramural basketball program for boys and girls that is available in a few archdiocesan schools. This program at St. Angela includes 105 students, 9 coaches and 70 parent volunteers.
	www.stangelaschool.org /St_Angela_School/StAngelaNewWebsite/Choose.html (344 words)

	St. Angela Merici (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Angela was born in Italy in the year 1470.
		When she was about twenty-two, Angela returned to her home town to find that parents were not teaching their children the simplest truths of religion.
		Angela began with twelve girls at Brescia and this was the beginning of the Ursuline Order - the first teaching Order of women to be founded in the Church.
	www.ainglkiss.com /saints/angela.html (243 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of January 27
		As is often the case, it was the number of burdens which Angela Merici had to endure that brought her ever closer to God and moved her to order her existemce.
		Angela's own success in teaching the catechism in Desenzano led to the invitation from a wealthy couple, whom she had once helped, to begin a school in Brescia.
		During that time Angela was noted for her patience to her sisters and kindness in her many acts of mercy to the poor, sick, and ignorant.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0127.htm (2132 words)

	St. Angela
		St. Angela Merici was responsible for changing all that, by organizing the Ursuline Sisters in 1535 for the education of women.
		Angela Merici was a native of Desenzano in sub-Alpine Italy.
		While the Protestant reformers were destroying the Catholic faith of many adult Christians, Angela and her imitators were already raising in firm and knowing faith the girls that would mother the next generation of Catholics.
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id766.htm (742 words)

	Lives of the Saints, June 1, Saint Angela Merici, Saint Justin, Saint Pamphilus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Saint Angela was the youngest of her virtuous parents’ five children; she was born in Italy, near Brescia, in 1474.
		Saint Angela made a vow of virginity before she was ten years old and persuaded her older sister to do the same.
		Angela became an angel of consolation for all in the region, and though she had not studied, her mind was so clear that preachers and theologians came to consult her.
	magnificat.ca /cal/engl/06-01.htm (1692 words)

	Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : January 27, 2005 : Angela Merici
		Angela Merici's feast was celebrated on June 1, except in the convents of her order where it was also celebrated today.
		The saint was born in 1474 in the diocese of Verona.
		Angela was almost seventy when she died ; her body remained incorrupt for thirty days.
	www.catholicculture.org /lit/calendar/day.cfm?date=2005-01-27 (357 words)

	Angela Merici Biography / Biography of Angela Merici Biography
		Angela Merici (1474-1540) was a devout Italian Catholic nun.
		Based on an engraving on the statue at Desenzano, Italy, Angela Merici's birth is set at March 21, 1474 in the province of Venice.
		The size, condition, and location of the farm, called Grezze, indicate that Merici came from moderate wealth, not from a peasant family as was traditionally believed.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-angela-merici (245 words)

	St. Angela
		Angela says 'be gentle and compassionate…for you will achieve more with loving kindness and gentleness than with harshness and rebukes'.
		Angela gradually found others who wanted to live a lifestyle similar to her own.
		Angela's vision of a new way of being consecrated virtually vanished, except in Italy where her followers have been faithful to the original model.
	www.esatclear.ie /~anneharte/stangela.htm (398 words)

	Three Parishes Merging to Form St. Angela
		Effective July1, three Roman Catholic parishes of Clinton and Brown counties are merging to form St. Angela Merici Parish, serving nearly 600 Catholic families in Clinton, Brown, Warren, Clermont and Highland Counties.
		Angela Merici (1474-1540) was a peasant girl from Brescia, Italy.
		Angela Merici Parish will offer a wide range of educational programs and parish activities for all ages.
	www.catholiccincinnati.org /pressreleases/stangela.htm (394 words)

	Catholic Online
		In the fifteenth and sixteenth century that Angela lived in, education for women was for the rich or for nuns.
		Although it was never a religious order in her lifetime, Angela's Company of Saint Ursula, or the Ursulines, was the first group of women religious to work outside the cloister and the first teaching order of women.
		Angela reminds us of her approach to change: "Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force, for God has given every single person free will and desires to constrain none; he merely shows them the way, invites them and counsels them."
	www.catholic.org /saints/saint.php?saint_id=21 (725 words)

	Today's Saint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Angela was born in Lombardy, Italy, on March 21, 1470.
		Angela headed a group that was so successful that she was asked to do the same thing in other cities.
		Angela experienced many visions throughout her life and one foretold that she would found the Ursulines.
	catholicexchange.com /church_today/message.asp?message_id=2211&sec_id=4 (317 words)

	St Angela Merici
		She was left an orphan at the age of ten and together with her elder sister came to the home of her uncle at the neighboring town of Salo where they led an angelic life.
		In 1524, while making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, she became suddenly blind when she was on the island of Crete, but continued her journey to the Holy Places and was cured on her return while praying before a crucifix at the same place where she was struck with blindness a few weeks before.
		Finally, on the 25th of November, 1535, Angela chose twelve virgins and laid the foundation of the order of the Ursulines in a small house near the Church of St. Afra in Brescia.
	www.stangelapacificgrove.org /StAngelaMerici.htm (480 words)

	Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : Litany of St. Angela Merici (Prayer)
		Angela, who didst give thyself to the practice of all the virtues from thy tenderest years, Pray for us.
		Angela, chosen by God to be the mother of many holy virgins, Pray for us.
		O God, Who by means of our blessed Mother Saint Angela didst cause a new Order of holy virgins to flourish in Thy Church: grant, through her intercession, that we may imitate her angelic virtues, and, forsaking all earthly things, may be found worthy of eternal bliss.
	www.catholicculture.org /lit/prayers/view.cfm?id=1123 (544 words)

	Daughters of St. Angela Merici
		little Angelas) live in the midst of their own families, have a job, and participate in social and civic life and in all everyday activities.
		Nearby is the Sanctuary of St. Angela, where the faithful can still venerate St. Angela’s body and visit the place where she lived.
		Close to it is the "Merician" Centre Association, a group whose aim is to research, gather and preserve documents of religious and cultural value relative to the philosophy and work of St. Angela Merici.
	www.angelamerici.it /Inglese/index_in.htm (434 words)

	St. Angela Merici - Saint of the Day - American Catholic
		Angela has the double distinction of founding the first teaching congregation of women in the Church and what is now called a “secular institute” of religious women.
		Early in life she was appalled at the ignorance among poorer children, whose parents could not or would not teach them the elements of religion.
		Angela’s charming manner and good looks complemented her natural qualities of leadership.
	www.americancatholic.org /Features/SaintOfDay?id=1273 (520 words)

	CONTEMPORARY REFLECTIONS ON THE WRITINGS OF SAINT ANGELA MERICI
		While Angela lived and ministered in the 16th century, her life, charism and writings speak truly to us today.
		Angela had promised to be with her followers several times in her writings as well as verbally especially during the latter days of her life.
		Sister Martha is author of Also in Your Midst, a series of reflections on the spirituality of Angela Merici, as well as numerous other essays on some aspect of Angela's way of life.
	www.ursulineslou.org /MarthaBuser.htm (450 words)

	St. Angela's - Ursuline Sisters of Prelate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		January 27 is the feastday of St. Angela Merici, the foundress of the Ursuline Sisters.
		Angela's charism of contemplation in action found expression in her ministry to make Christ the centre of family life.
		Angela's Convent at Prelate was built in 1919 by the people in that pioneering community who welcomed the Ursulines and shared their goods and their help.
	www.sasktelwebsite.net /stangela/sisters.htm (1396 words)

	Linuxcare Computer Directory Project - Vancouver> Society> Religion and Spirituality> Christianity> Denominations> ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Angela Merici - Biography of the founder of the Ursulines, who died in 1540.
		The Most Important Spots of Saint Angela Merici's Life - A virtual tour of sites associated with the foundress of the Ursulines in her hometown of Desenzano del Garda.
		Angela Merici (1474-1540) - From "The Saints: A Concise Biographical Dictionary."
	www.linuxcare.ca /dmoz/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Christianity/Denominations/Catholicism/Saints/A/Saint_Angela_Merici (177 words)

	The Ursuline Sisters - About Us
		There, in 1535, St. Angela Merici, our foundress, began a new kind of religious life for women as she and her followers lived lives dedicated to God and to the service of others with and among the people rather than enclosed within monastery walls.
		We belong to the international branch of St. Angela’s family known as the Ursulines of the Roman Union which numbers some 2400 sisters in 27 provinces throughout the world.
		In the spirit of St. Angela, we seek especially to be women of peace and reconciliation in our world today, living and working for peace through justice in all our relationships towards all peoples and cultures, and towards the earth and all creation.
	osucentral.org /about (396 words)

	Angela Merici -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Angela Merici -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Angela Merici was beatified in 1768 by (additional info and facts about Clement XIII) Clement XIII and canonized in 1807 by (Pope who concluded a concordat with Napoleon and crowned him emperor of France (1740-1823)) Pius VII.
		She is buried in the Church of St. Afra at (An ancient Italian city in central Lombardy) Brescia and her Catholic (A day designated for feasting) feast day is January 27.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/angela_merici.htm (112 words)

	Welcome to Ursuline Sisters of Louisville
		Angela Merici was born in Desenzano, Italy, sometime between 1470 and 1474.
		During the time of Angela, religious revolt rocked the Church; the Venetian Lombardy area was at war and family life was threatened.
		Angela founded the Company of Saint Ursula in Brescia in 1535.
	www.ursulineslou.org /Angela1.asp (193 words)

	St. Angela Merici
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		Where is Brescia, birthplace of St. Angela Merici
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		When she returned home after her uncle's death, Angela was shocked at the numbers of poor children in the area who had no religious training.
		Angela began teaching religion to the little girls in her neighborhood.
		Angela also started the first teaching order of women.
	members.dslextreme.com /users/stangelamerici/links.htm (138 words)

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