Rad tematizira ranu povijest odgojno-obrazovnoga rada sestara uršulinki u Varaždinu, od njihova dolaska 1703. godine do početka 20. stoljeća. Riječ je o odgojnom i školskom radu koji svojom kvalitetom, kako na europskoj tako i na hrvatskoj razini, nadmašuje stoljeća, a temeljio se na spisima utemeljiteljice reda sv. Anđele Merici i isusovačkoj uredbi o studiju u srednjim i visokim školama Ratio studiorum. Zbog uočene duhovne i pedagoške sličnosti tih dviju redovničkih ustanova, a osobito zbog prostorno-vremenske koegzistencije u Varaždinu 18. i 19. stoljeća, logično se nametnulo pitanje o mogućoj suradnji dviju redovničkih zajednica na prosvjetnom i odgojnom planu, odnosno mogućem utjecaju isusovaca na ustroj i djelovanje uršulinskih škola i uopće njihovo odgojno-obrazovno djelovanje. Istraživanje je provedeno na Prvoj samostanskoj kronici uršulinskoga samostana u Varaždinu, koja bilježi vrijeme od dolaska uršulinki u Hrvatsku do 1900. godine, te ukazuje na duboku duhovnu i karizmatsku bliskost isusovaca i uršulinki, bogatu svećeničku djelatnost isusovaca u uršulinskom samostanu i crkvi, ali i zavidnu autonomiju koju su sestre imale u svom odgojno-obrazovnom djelovanju. The author discusses the early history of the educational work of the sisters of St Ursula order in Varaždin, from their arrival in 1703, until the beginning of the twentieth century. Namely, their work consisted of educational and schoolwork that, in comparison with contemporary European and Croatian standards, was way ahead of the time. Ursuline pedagogical work was based on the manuscripts of the order’s founder St Angela de Merici and Jesuits’ regulation on high and higher schools Ratio studiorum. Since these two ecclesiastical orders had similar religious and educational approaches in their work, and especially since these orders coexisted in Varaždin in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the author raises the question of whether these two ecclesiastical orders cooperated in their educational and pedagogical activities; or even whether Jesuits influenced on organization and activities of Ursuline schools and Ursuline educational doctrine. The investigation of the first chronicle of the Ursuline monastery in Varaždin, which covers timeframe from the period when sisters of St Ursula came to Croatia up to 1900, reveals deeply spiritual and charismatic contiguity between Jesuits and sisters of St Ursula and constant pastoral work of Jesuits within the Ursuline monastery and church. Still, the chronicle reveals also that the Ursuline sisters had a broad autonomy regarding their educational work.