Biddy Early
1800s Irish clairvoyant and healer
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Saint Thecla
Early Christian saint
Ani Kaaro
Ani Kaaro was the senior leader of Ngāti Hao, a small, declining hapū of Ngāpuhi from Rangiahua and Waihou in the upper Hokianga district.
Joanna Ryan
As Mother Stanislaus in the Loreto order of nuns, she took a leading role in developing a hall of residence for women university students at Loreto College on St Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
Alice Perry
Irish engineer and Christian Scientist
Jadwiga of Poland
The first woman to be crowned as monarch of the Kingdom of Poland, in the 1300s.
Julian of Norwich
Religious anchoress and writer
Katherine Parr
Religious activist and writer; last wife of King Henry VIII
Saint Adelheid
Queen of Germany in the 900s
Saint Olga of Kyiv
Ruler of Kyivan Rus’, a conglomeration of local regions which now covers Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.