Ursuline of Parma
Italian Virgin and blessed
Feast: 7 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Ursulina of Parma had visions from the age of ten, and at fifteen felt called to go to Avignon to urge the antipope Clement VII to give up his claim. With her mother she crossed the Alps and saw him more than once, then went to Rome to the true pope, Boniface IX, who encouraged her to try again.
Her second journey to Avignon failed; she was accused of sorcery and narrowly escaped trial. After a pilgrimage to the Holy Land she and her mother were driven from Parma by civil war and settled in Verona, where she died aged thirty-five in 1410.
The miracles
The source does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A young visionary who worked to end the Great Schism.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Butler's Lives of the Saints, ed. Thurston and Attwater (1956), vol. II - 7 April
- Wikidata Q67607574 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.