Annie Elizabeth Gordon
New Zealand Salvation Army officer, rescue home matron and probation officer
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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
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