Saint Caintigern
700s anchoress of Loch Lomond and saint in the Irish tradition
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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
Mary Antona Ebo
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.