Adelaide Avery Claflin
American suffragist
American suffragist
American author and poet
Irish saint and 6th century abbess of Kildare
She graduated from the US Army School of Nursing in 1929 and was one of the school’s few alumnae to join the Army Nurse Corps.
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Captain responsible for the recruitment of African American female soldiers during World War II, lawyer and civil rights activist
Irish artist, sculptor, and mystic
Foundress and first abbess of Cell Chéire, and saint in the Irish tradition
Foundress of Tech Damnatan at Sliab Betha and a saint in the Irish tradition
Anchoress and foundress of Inis Cethig on the Erris peninsula in Co. Mayo, and a saint in the Irish tradition
South African author and activist who led a life of courage, compassion and integrity