Mercedes Castellanos de Anchorena
Argentine aristocrat and philanthropist.
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Ann Fletcher Jackson
English Quaker evangelist in New Zealand
Monica Sjöö
Swedish-born artist and writer who strongly advocated radical anarcho/eco-feminism and played a pivotal role in the early development of the Goddess movement.
Hannah Adams
American author renowned for her works on comparative religion and early United States history.
Clare of Assisi
Italian saint closely linked to Francis of Assisi. She founded the Order of Poor Ladies, a Franciscan monastic order known for its strict poverty.
Adèle Euphrasie Barbier
New Zealand Roman Catholic religious sister, teacher and founder of a congregation of religious sisters.
Úrsula Micaela Morata
Nun, mystic, and the founder of the Capuchin Poor Clares convent in Alicante, Spain.
Ageltrude
Empress and Queen of Italy in the late 800s
Nechama Leibowitz
In 1930, she earned her doctorate from the University of Marburg with her thesis on “Techniques in the Translations of German-Jewish Biblical Translations.” That same year, in 1930, she immigrated to Mandate Palestine. For the next twenty-five years, she taught at a religious Zionist teachers’ seminar.
Regina Jonas
Regina Jonas’s studies at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums led her to write a thesis titled “Can a Woman Be a Rabbi According to Halachic Sources?” Despite protests, she received her semicha on December 27, 1935.