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Today is Monday, October 21st, 2019.

It is also the feast day of St. Ursula.

Now, before we dive into today's topic, let's talk about St. Ursula.

St. Ursula lived a long time ago. In fact,

she lived in the 300s, and much of what we know about her is clouded in legend. So, St. Ursula lived in what is now England. She was a princess, and her father ordered that she go set sail for the European continent to meet her husband that she was engaged to.

So she set sail, but not by herself.

She left with 11,000 other women who were still virgins, and they set sail for the European continent.

Miraculously, a storm brought them there in one day.

But before she got married, she went on a pilgrimage of Europe to see all of the

holy sites, and she even convinced a bishop and the pope to come along with them.

However, it was a much different time, and a violent group called

the Huns were attacking various places in Europe, and they were incredibly violent. So they captured

this small group. They beheaded all of the people with Ursula, and legend tells us that she was shot also.

She, however, was renowned for her incredible faith, and legend started to be told about her

soon after her death. So regardless, if this story is absolutely true about St. Ursula or not,

we can take from her the importance of going on pilgrimage

to go see the important holy sites of our faith. We can go there, which is most amazing this day,

even virtually. We can go online and look at the pictures of these real places where amazing things

have happened. So today, friends, we are going to keep talking about the seven gifts of the Holy

Spirit. Last week, we talked about the first gift, which is fear of the Lord. And this week, we are going to talk about the second

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