Religion Archives - Page 21 of 24

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

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

Margaret Sangster

She became one of the popular American poets in the period following the Civil War, and her poems “Elizabeth Aged Nine,” and “Are the Children at Home?” were known the country over.

Margaret Kissling

The Kisslings established a Māori girls’ boarding school in buildings which Bishop G. A. Selwyn had purchased from William Spain at Kohimarama (Mission Bay).

Marianne Williams

Marianne Williams was the first substantial witness to record, from a woman’s point of view, early domestic interaction among Māori and Pākehā.