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.
Cleveland, Ohio businesswoman and philanthropist
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.
20th century Irish historian and nun
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.
Dr Keskin advocates for the Australian-Muslim community through her research and community outreach.
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.