Religion Archives - Page 7 of 27

Áine Hardiman

Dominican nun, community activist and anti-apartheid campaigner

Lieutenant Commander Mildred McAfee

She became the Navy’s first female line officer on 3 August 1942. Commissioned a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve, she simultaneously undertook the demanding task of Director of the Navy’s newly-established Women’s Reserve. In November 1943, following the passage of new legislation by the Congress, she was promoted to the rank of Captain.

Annette Paul

Annette Paul was one of a small number of educated women who were influential in the fledgeling Salvation Army in New Zealand.

Haruko Takahashi

Japanese-American Shintō priestess who spent part of World War II imprisoned at Honouliuli Internment Camp on O’ahu, Hawai’i

Nannie Helen Burroughs

African-American educator, speaker, religious leader, civil rights activist, feminist, and businesswoman

Jane Lead

Christian mystic whose spiritual visions, recorded in a series of publications, were central to the founding and philosophy of the Philadelphian Society in London in the 1600s

Walpurga of Paderborn

Saint and Anglo-Saxon missionary to the Frankish Empire in the 700s

Agnes d’Harcourt

Abbess of the convent of Longchamp, near Paris

Louise de Marillac

One of the most active members of the Ladies of Charity in 1600s France

Allish

Jewish scholar and translator circa 1700