Helen Waddell
Irish scholar, translator, and author
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Saint Caintigern
700s anchoress of Loch Lomond and saint in the Irish tradition
Wendy Oxenhorn
Executive director and vice chairman of the Jazz Foundation of America (JFA), which is committed to “providing jazz and blues musicians with financial, medical, housing, and legal assistance as well as performance opportunities
Saint Attracht
7th century Irish saint, founder and first abbess of Cell Sáile
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
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini
American Catholic saint
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