Religion Archives - Page 18 of 46

Ruth Marcus Patt

Active member of the Jewish community of New Brunswick in New Jersey.

Eliza Bennis

Irish-American methodist activist and diarist

Cecily Dillon

1600s Irish co-foundress and first abbess of the Irish Poor Clares in Dublin, Bethlehem and Athlone

Celeste Bowe

Irish Daughter of Charity and nurse

Gospel singer and songwriter Dottie Peoples is one of Georgia’s most renowned figures in Christian music. Hailed as the “Songbird of the South” by the late radio host Esmond J. Patterson, Peoples has been compared to gospel and rhythm-and-blues artists Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, and Patti LaBelle.

Babbie Mason

Babbie Mason is an African American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter and author. Her song “All Rise” was one of the most-recorded contemporary Christian songs of the 1990s.