Uldin by Caravaggio 1610

The official title of this painting is The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, a story largely understood as fictional and made up by Christians in the 10th century. If this was a true story Uldin would have simply thrown her over his shoulder and made her his concubine, that's the truth. No Hun is going to throw away 11,000 virgins, I mean just lol.

"According to one version of the legend of Saint Ursula, she and her eleven thousand virgin companions were captured by the Huns. The eleven thousand virgins were slaughtered, but the king of the Huns was overcome by Ursula's modesty and beauty and begged her forgiveness if only she would marry him. Ursula replied that she would not, upon which the king transfixed her with an arrow.

The Catholic Encyclopedia (1912) article on Ursula states that "this legend, with its countless variants and increasingly fabulous developments, would fill more than a hundred pages. Various characteristics of it were already regarded with suspicion by certain medieval writers, and since [Caesar] Baronius have been universally rejected". Neither Jerome nor Gregory of Tours refers to Ursula in his writings. Gregory of Tours mentions the legend of the Theban Legion, to whom a church that once stood in Cologne was dedicated. The most important hagiographers (Bede, Ado, Usuard, Notker the Stammerer, Hrabanus Maurus) of the early Middle Ages also do not enter Ursula under 21 October, her feast day." (taken from wikipedia)




Source:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caravaggio,_martirio_di_sant%27orsola,_1610,_02.JPG

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CaravaggioUrsula.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Ursula

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martyrdom_of_Saint_Ursula_(Caravaggio)

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