Fabiola
Founder of the first hospital in Rome.
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Blandina
One of the forty-eight martyrs of Lyons who perished during the religious persecution under the emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Barbara Juliane von Krüdener
Russian novelist and mystic
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Russian mystic and social leader in Paris.
Anne Boleyn
Queen of England, one of the wives of Henry VIII, mother of Elizabeth I.
Saint Olympias
Friend to the sick, the poor, prisoners and exiles
Puna Hīmene Te Rangimārie
Described as the ‘smartest Māori woman it has been my lot to meet’ by an investigating policeman, Puna Hīmene Te Rangimārie was one of the first to be prosecuted under the Tohunga Suppression Act 1907.
Theodelinda
Theodelinda, queen of the Lombards, is celebrated because of her instrumentality in converting the Arian Lombards to the Roman church.
Irene of Athens
Famed Byzantine empress
Radegund of Poitiers
Thuringian princess and Frankish queen, founder of a scholarly abbey