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Saint Brigit of Kildare

Reputed foundress and first abbess of Cell Dara (Kildare), the female patron saint of Ireland

Saint Cainner

Irish saint and foundress of Cluain Cláraid

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.