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
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Madge Saunders
Jamaican Christian minister and community worker
Saint Margaret of Scotland
Saint and queen
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)
Sara Blomfield
Irish Bahá’í pioneer and humanitarian
Biddy Early
1800s Irish clairvoyant and healer
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.