Index

BIBLIOGRAPHIC CATEGORIES: References include books, booklets, articles, and other media.

  1. Primary Sources, Critical Studies, Writings & Commentaries
  2. Angela Merici – Biography
  3. Spirituality & Ursuline Charism
  4. Renaissance & Gender Studies
  5. Ursuline History & Biographies
  6. Ursuline Education
  7. OSU Documents, Augustinian Rule, Franciscan Studies [Ancillary Documents]
  8. Art
  9. St Ursula

1. Primary Sources, Critical Studies, Writings & Commentaries

Writings: Rule, Counsels, Testament [Legacies]

Merici, Angela. Writings: Rule, Counsels, Legacies. Rome: Ursulines of the Roman Union, 1995.

Complete Writings of St Angela of Merici.  Digital Editions

English and Old Italian facsimile edition   English with Scriptural citations, document format 

 Commentary on Writings

Durkin, Mary-Cabrini. Angela Merici’s Journey of the Heart : The Rule, the Way. Boulder, CO: WovenWord Press, 2005.

Monica [cosu.blogspot]. Reflections on the Prologue & First Counsel in Light of Scripture. 2011.  Reflection on the Second Counsel in Light of Scripture. 2013.

Stone, Ignatius. Commentary on the Writings of Saint Angela Merici : Rule, Counsels, Legacies. S.L.: S.N., 1996.

Critical Studies

Ledóchowska, Teresa. Angela Merici and the Company of St. Ursula : According to the Historical Documents. v.1. Rome: Ancora, 1967.

____________. Angela Merici and the Company of St. Ursula : According to the Historical Documents. v.2. Rome: Ancora, 1967.

Mariani, Luciana, Elisa Tarolli, and Marie Seynaeve. Angela Merici : Contribution Towards a Biography. Milano: Ancora Milano, 1989.

Rio, Marie-Bénédicte, osu.  Angela Merici: The scribe and the witnesses [Three Writings of Gabriel Cozzano, Angela’s secretary and Chancellor of the Company (1540-1546)] Testimonies of the Life of the Reverend Mother Sister Angela Franciscan Tertiary or Processo Nazari (1568). Rome. Roman Union of the Order of Saint Ursula. 2001.

Seynaeve, Marie, OSU. [tr. Anne Benyon, OSU] New Lights on Angela Merici and her work. 1983.

2. Angela Merici – Biography

Angela Merici: A Great Saint and a Great Citizen of Desenzano. [Patron of Desenzano del Garda since 1962]. City of Desenzano del Garda, website post by “Lady in Blue,” English version. 2003.  Italian.

Books

Beeteme, G. The Life of S. Angela Merici: the foundress of the Ursulines: her life, her virtues, and her institutes. London 1877.

Philip Caraman. Saint Angela: The Life of Angela Merici, Foundress of the Ursulines (1474-1540).  London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1963.

de Mercurio, Marie, OSU. Angela. [trans. D. Filippo Maria Salvatori, SJ, 1807, for canonization].  St Martin, OH: The Ursulines of Brown County. 1970. Internet Library digital edition may be previewed or borrowed: https://archive.org/details/adela0000unse

M.Francis d’Assisi, OSU (New Rochelle). Sant’ Angela of the Ursulines. Bruce Publishing Co. 1934.

M. Johnston. Cameo of Angela. Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press. 1958.

Monica, M. OSU. Angela Merici and her Teaching Idea. NY: Longmans, Green & Co. 1927. [Ursulines of Brown County].

Moran, M. Yvonne, OSU. (Louisville). Angela, God’s Magnet. Great Neck, NY: Todd & Honeywell, Inc. 1988.

O’Reilly, Bernard. Saint Angela Merici and the Ursulines. London: Burns & Oates.1880. https://archive.org/details/StAngelaMericiAndUrsulines

Parenty, Abbé.  Life of Saint Angela of Brescia.  Philadelphia: Peter Cunningham. 1857. https://archive.org/details/lifeofsaintangel00pare

Reidy, Mary. The First Ursuline: The Story of Saint Angela Merici.  Westminster: Newman Press. 1961.

Br Hermenegild, TOSF. Life of St Angela Merici of Brescia: Foundress of the Order of St Ursula. 2013.

Children’s Books

Keefe, Maryellen, OSU.  Saint Angela Merici: Leading People to God Along the Paths to the Gospel. Daughters of Saint Paul (Ed. Signe). 2000.  [illustrated children’s book].

McKern, Pat. The Promise to Angela: A Life of Saint Angela Merici. Valatie, NY: Holy Cross. 1966. pp82. [middle school]

Articles

McBride, Alfred, O.Praem. “Angela Merici: A Champion of Educational Rights for Women.” (chapter). Saints are People: Church History through the Saints. Wm Brown Co. 1981. pp131-6.

Booklets

Brinovec, Mary Ellen, OSU, Noel Marra, OSU, Joan Petersen, OSU. Angela: A Steadfast Presence. Pepper Pike, OH: Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland, 2007.

Durkin, Mary-Cabrini.  Angela’s Story. Strasbourg: Editions Signe. 2006.

Mahoney, Irene, OSU.  Saint Angela Foundress of the Ursulines. 

Videos

German Ursulines (English narration). Angela Merici – Stages of her Life.

Youngstown Ursulines. The Life of Saint Angela.

Mount St Joseph Ursulines. Angela’s Story. narrative. 15m.

Iconography

“Angela Merici. Paintings and veneration in the bicentenary of canonization” [Iconography Merician] Brescia, Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo. The restoration of a pictorial cycle of Pompeo Ghitti.

3. Spirituality & Ursuline Charism

Books

Barsotti, Divo (1980) The Spirituality of St. Angela Merici, translated by Sr. M. Dominic Kelly (1985). Sligo Printing.

Buser, Martha, OSU. Also in Your Midst : Reflections on the Spirituality of St. Angela Merici. Green Bay, Wis.: Alt Pub., 1990.

____________. Lover of us All: Further Reflections on the Spirituality of St. Angela Merici. Louisville: Ursuline Sisters of Louisville, 2012.

Durkin, Mary-Cabrini. Leadership from the Heart: Guidance from Angela Merici. 2019.

Howard, Janice, OSU. Angela: A woman faced with two alternatives, she saw and chose the third. Australian Province of Ursulines, Croydon Park, NSW, Australia. 1989

Ledóchowska, Teresa, OSU. In Search of the Charism of the Institute of the Ursulines of the Roman Union. Rome: Ursulines of the Roman Union, 1976.

Margoni, Alberto. The Intuition of the Secular Spirituality. [translation from Italian by Company of St Ursula of Malta]  Cantanzaro, Italy: Rubbettino. 2004. 125pp.

Mariani, Luciana, OSU, and Marie-Benedicte Rio, OSU [tr. Armida Veglio, OSU]. Against the Tide: Angela Merici. [Contra Vents et Marées au Souffle de l’Esprit]. Rome. 2004.

Mazzonis, Querciolo.  Spirituality, Gender, and the Self in Renaissance Italy: Angela Merici and the Company of St. Ursula (1474-1540). Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2007.

Roman Union [translation from French] The Spirit of Saint Angela.  1950.

Stone, M. Ignatius, OSU. Angela’s Alphabet: Culled from Her Life and Writings. Ursuline Convent: Westgate-on-Sea, Kent. 2009.

Vas, Sister Rita. The Spirituality of Evangelical Charity in the Life and Writings of St. Angela Merici. Bangalore, India: Asian Trading Corporation.

Booklets:

Follow the Spirit:  Angela Merici and the Ursulines. Editions Signe. 1998.

Forward in Joy: 365 Days with Angela Merici.  Strasbourg: Editions Signe. 2005?

With a Great and Longing Heart: Praying with Angela Merici. Editions Signe.  

Articles, Papers & Chapter Selections

Angeli, Sister Paola, OSU.  “Obedience to the Spirit in St Angela: Ideas for Discernment” [Italian]

Blaisdell. Charmarie J. “Angela Merici and the Ursulines.” DeMolen, Richard L, and John C Olin, eds.. Religious Orders of the Catholic Reformation : In Honor of John C. Olin on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday. New York: Fordham University Press, 1994. 99-138.

Curtis, Carol, OSU (Louisville).  The Way Love Works: The Charism of Community in Saint Angela Merici. [Thesis]. St Meinrad, IN. Curtis – The Way Love Works_Charism of Community.pdf

____________.  Above All: Envisioning a Community of Love – A Survey of the Spirituality of Saint Angela Merici. St. Meinrad, IN. 2018.  Curtis – Above All Spirituality Survey.pdf

Jarrell, Lynn, OSU (Louisville). “The Development of Legal Structures for Women Religious between 1500 and 1900: A Study of Selected Institutes of Religious Life for Women.”. [Dissertation]. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University. 1984.

____________. Charism of Angela. [License Paper]. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University. 1980.

____________. “The Development of Legal Structures for Women Religious between 1500 and 1900: A Study of Selected Institutes of Religious Life for Women.” U.S. Catholic Historian, 1991/1992, Vol. 10, No. 1/2, pp. 25-35. [chapter from dissertation] JSTOR preview

Klaffenbach, Karen, OSU (Paola).  “Angela and the Eucharist.”

Latz, Dorothy L.. St. Angela Merici and the Spiritual Currents of the Italian Renaissance. [Dissertation]

____________. “The Writings of St. Angela Merici in the Light of Bonaventuran Exemplarism: The Motherhood, Fatherhood, and Transcendence of God.” Mystics Quarterly. 10 (1984), 126-35.

Mazzonis, Querciolo.  “A female ideal of religious perfection: Angela Merici and the Company of St Ursula (1535-1540).”  Renaissance Studies. 18(3). 391-411.

__________. “Mysticism and the Bride of Christ.” Presentation: Angela Retreat Experience, Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland (Pepper Pike, Ohio), July 14, 2011.

Undset, Sigrid. “St. Angela Merici: A Champion of the Women’s Movement.” Stages on the Road (tr. From Norwegian Arthur G. Chater). 1934.  Reprint 2012. E-book available.

Zappa, Jean Anne, OSU (Louisville).  “Angela and Saint Paul.” St Meinrad, IN.

____________. “Angela’s Writings and the Didache.” St Meinrad, IN.

Conferences & Reflections

[AUCIS] “The extraordinary Experience of St Angela Merici (ca. 1476-1540).” 4pp. (3/25/12).

Curtis, Carol, OSU (Louisville).  “Angela and Creation.”

__________.  “Angela and the Holy Spirit.”

Durkin, Mary-Cabrini. Art in Brescia, the Spirit of Angela Merici & Women’s Leadership Today

Mariani, Luciana, OSU. Icon of a Mystery.

Monica [cosu.blogspot]. Merician Leadership and the Counsels. 2009. Pastoral Care: Angela & St John’s Gospel (parallels).

Seynaeve, Marie, OSU [RU]

__________. “Angela explains Scripture.”

https://ursulines.union.romaine.catholique.fr/Angele-explique-l-Ecriture

__________. “Angela’s Charism as Spouse of the Lord.” 10pp.

__________.  “Angela’s Counsels for the Coronavirus Epidemic.” 2pp.

__________.  “Angela’s Vision of Leadership.” 16pp.

__________. “Angela’s Way to Holiness.” [Saint-Saulve, January 2019]

__________. “Called Anew.”

__________.  “Dialogue & Shared Leadership.” 4pp.

__________. “Francis & Angela.” International gathering of Ursulines of the Roman Union.

__________.  “Life & Message of St. Angela Merici: Your message for us today.” 14pp.

__________.  “Life & Personality of St. Angela Merici: Your message for us today.” 7pp.

__________.  “Mutual Love.”. [French] https://ursulines.union.romaine.catholique.fr/Amour-mutuel-4560

__________.  “Praying with Angela.” 12pp.

__________.  “Angela and her closeness to nature”

https://ursulines.union.romaine.catholique.fr/Ste-Angele-sa-proximite-avec-la  [French]

__________.  “Spiritual Progress.” 7pp.

__________.  “Spirituality” https://ursulines.union.romaine.catholique.fr/La-spiritualite-d-Angele-Merici

__________. Research on Saint Angela. https://ursulines.union.romaine.catholique.fr/IMG/pdf/3387c.pdf

Videos

US Eastern Province, Roman Union:  [Sister Elysa, OSU USA]. Video

4. Renaissance & Gender Studies [Angela & Ursulines]

Gleason, E. G. “Women and Faith: Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to the Present.” in Lucetta Scaraffia and Gabriella Zarri, Eds..” Catholic Historical Review 86 (2000): 645–46.

Goodman, Anne. Moretto da Brescia : viewing female spirituality in sixteenth-century Lombardy [dissertation] https://www.worldcat.org/title/moretto-da-brescia-viewing-female-spirituality-in-sixteenth-century-lombardy/oclc/949380260

Mazzonis, Querciolo.  “A female ideal of religious perfection: Angela Merici and the Company of St Ursula (1535-1540).”  Renaissance Studies. 18(3). 391-411.

__________. “The company of St. Ursula in Counter-Reformation Italy”, ch 2 in Weber, Alison, ed. Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World. [Women and Gender in the Early Modern World]. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2016.

More, Alison.  “The Ursulines,” (ch 6) Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious: 1200-1600. Oxford. 2018. pp 148-153.

Zarri, Gabriella, “From prophecy to discipline, 1450-1650.” in Scaraffia, Lucetta, and Gabriella Zarri, eds. Women and Faith : Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to the Present. (tr. Keith Botsford). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999.

__________. Living saints: a typology of female sanctity in the early sixteenth century.” in Bornstein, Daniel Ethan, and Roberto Rusconi. Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. [Women in Culture and Society]. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

__________. “Female sanctity, 1500-1660.” in Hsia, R. Po-chia. Reform and Expansion, 1500-1660. [The Cambridge History of Christianity, v. 6]. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

5. Ursuline History & Biographies

  1. Ursuline History

Books

Aron, Marguerite (tr M Angela Griffin).  The Ursulines.  NY: Declan X McMullen Co. 1947.

McKiernan, M. M. Justin, osu (New Rochelle).  The Order of Saint Ursula. New Rochelle, NY: Ursuline Province. 1945.

O’Reilly, Bernard. Saint Angela Merici and the Ursulines. London: Burns & Oates.1880. https://archive.org/details/StAngelaMericiAndUrsulines

Booklets

Follow the Spirit:  Angela Merici and the Ursulines. Editions Signe. 1998.

Articles and Chapters

Clark, Emily, ed. Voices from an American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727–1760. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Collection of 18th century letters.

Mazzonis, Querciolo. . “Ursulines” [Book Review/Abstract]. http://www.angelamerici.it/redazione_news_doku/04/119_pdf02.pdf

Schweri, Helen Margaret, OSU (Louisville).  “Ursulines and Martyrdom.” 1981.

Waters, Peter Maurice. The Ursuline Achievement: A Philosophy of Education for Women: St. Angela Merici, the Ursulines and Catholic Education. Victoria, Australia: Colonna, 1994. Includes a 1705 reprint of the 1652 rule and constitutions of the Ursulines of Paris.

Zarri, Gabriella, “From prophecy to discipline, 1450-1650.” in Scaraffia, Lucetta, and Gabriella Zarri, eds. Women and Faith : Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to the Present. (tr. Keith Botsford). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Online

Wikidata.  “Ursulines in North America.”

Company of St. Ursula / Daughters of St. Angela – Secular Institute

Brosnan, Joan, OSU. [tr. from Italian Ruth Podesta].  Maddelena and Elisabetta Girelli: Their Story Lives. Cinciannati: Kahny Printing.1999.

Ursuline Biographies

  1. Martyrdom: Schweri, Helen Margaret, OSU (Louisville).  “Ursulines and Martyrdom.” 1981.
  2. Marie of the Incarnation
  3. French Martyrs
  4. Dorothy Kazel

Contemporary Ursuline Communities

2007 Congregational Overview PDF COMPANIONS OF SAINTANGELA (angelamerici.it)

NAULC DIRECTORY 2018-19 https://1qszqk2yh2vo7yv012x55d7i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Intranet-NAULC-Directory-2018-2019.pdf

NAULC Map

Roman Union Map

6. Ursuline Education

Miller, Linda Lucarell.  The Charism of Saint Angela Merici: Ursuline as Safe Harbor for Adolescent Development. Cleveland: St Mary’s Seminary. 2012

Monica, M. OSU. [Brown County]. Angela Merici and her Teaching Idea. NY: Longmans, Green & Co. 1927.

Monica [cosu.blogspot]. “The Merician Difference in Education.”  2010.

“Ursuline Education in the Spirit of St Angela Merici.” June 2016. [Roman Union Generalate]

Waters, Peter Maurice. The Ursuline Achievement: A Philosophy of Education for Women: St. Angela Merici, the Ursulines and Catholic Education. Victoria, Australia: Colonna, 1994. Includes a 1705 reprint of the 1652 rule and constitutions of the Ursulines of Paris.

 7. OSU Documents, Augustinian Rule, Franciscan Studies [Ancillary Documents]

Rule of Saint Augustine:

The Rule of Our Holy Father Saint Augustine and the Constitutions of the Ursuline Nuns of the Paris Congregation.  Louisville Ursulines. 1933.

Explanation of the Rule of Saint Augustine: According to Bl. Humbert, 5th Master of the Order of Preachers (translated from the German) St Dominic Convent, Jersey City, NJ. 1900.

Franciscan Studies:

Moorman, John R. H. St. Francis of Assisi: Writings and Early Biographies: English Omnibus of the Sources for the Life of St. Francis. Compiled by Marion Alphonse Habig. 3rd Rev ed. Chicago, Ill: Franciscan Herald Press, 1973.

8. ART

Books & Articles

Goodman, Anne. Moretto da Brescia : viewing female spirituality in sixteenth-century Lombardy [dissertation]

Normandeau, Helen, OSU (Chatham) [† 2019], The Inner Voice of Angela Merici: Mandalas & Text, 2000.

Videos

Stocker, Aloyse and Dominica Widmer, OSU (Louisville), mid 20th century, Wisdom of Angela collection of watercolor (AS) & Calligraphy (DW).

9. ST URSULA

De Voragine, Jacobus. (tr. Christopher Stace) The Golden Legend. New York: Penguin Classics. 1999.

DePippo, Gregory.  Legend of Ursula (article). The New Liturgical Movement.org. 10/21/2015.  http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2015/10/the-legend-of-saint-ursula.html#.X3PhRRSSk2w

Monica [cosu.blogspot]. St Ursula Legend. 2009.

Montgomery, Scott B. St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne: Relics, Reliquaries, and the Visual Culture of Group Sanctity in Late Medieval Europe.  New York: Peter Lang. 2010.