Religion Archives - Page 10 of 40

Ardeth Platte

Nun, anti-nuclear activist and ‘peacemaker in a hostile world’

Abbie Trask Usher

1800s American President of the Woman’s Relief Corps

Loretta Manggrum

American pianist and composer

In 1965, after Alabama state troopers attacked voting rights marchers on what became known as “Bloody Sunday,” Sister Antona Ebo and other nuns from the Franciscan Sisters of Mary traveled to Selma and joined the march to Montgomery when it resumed two weeks later.

Sophia Elizabeth Strong Taylor

Cleveland, Ohio businesswoman and philanthropist

Annie Lynch

Annie Lynch was Mother Superior of Lewisham Hospital, Sydney which under her management between 1899-1922/23 developed into one of Sydney’s major general hospitals.

Angela Bolster

20th century Irish historian and nun

Zubaidah bint Ja’far

Abbasid princess remembered for ordering the construction of a series of wells, reservoirs and artificial pools that provided water for Muslim pilgrims along the route from Baghdad to Mecca and Medina.