Chandra Khonnokyoong
Prominent Thai Maechi (nun) and the founder of Wat Phra Dhammakaya.
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Agnes Bernard
Irish nun, teacher, and founder of Providence Mill
Annie Elizabeth Gordon
New Zealand Salvation Army officer, rescue home matron and probation officer
Bertha Schroeder
One of the New Zealand Salvation Army’s leading social workers, especially in the area of women’s and children’s social and rescue work.
Amanda Smith
Methodist preacher and former enslaved woman who funded The Amanda Smith Orphanage and Industrial Home for Abandoned and Destitute Colored Children outside Chicago
Margery Kempe
English Christian mystic, known for The Book of Margery Kempe, possibly the first autobiography in the English language.
Marguerite Porete
French-speaking mystic and author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, a work of Christian mysticism on the workings of agape (divine love)
Madge Saunders
Jamaican Christian minister and community worker
Saint Margaret of Scotland
Saint and queen
Sara Blomfield
Irish Bahá’í pioneer and humanitarian