Ursula de Jesus (1604-1666) was an African-Peruvian who rose out of slavery who became a donada (a non-slave religious servant) in the Roman Catholic Church. In her lifetime, she was notable for her mystical visions and her claims of communicating with the souls of those who dies and went to purgatory. In 1642, she survived a near-fatal fall into a well, and later credited her rescue to the prayer-answered intercession of the Virgin of Carmen.