Fainche
6th century Irish anchoress, abbess of Ros Airthir (Rossory, Co. Fermanagh), and saint in the Irish tradition
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Mary Bigelow Ingham
1800s American dedicated to teaching, missionary work, and temperance reform
Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis
Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis was an Episcopal lay leader whose efforts helped to revive Virginia’s Episcopal church early in the nineteenth century.
Teresa Muratori
1600s Italian composer and painter
Dr Camille Becker
Australian feminist theologian
Mary Butters
1700s and 1800s Irish practitioner of ‘white’ magic, using herbal and superstitious remedies to cure various ailments.
Helen Monkivitch
For 50 years, Sister Helen Monkivitchmade an exceptional contribution to health and aged-care services throughout Victoria, Australia.
Lydia Mary Fay
Lydia Mary Fay was an American educator who supervised an Episcopal mission school in Shanghai almost continuously from 1851 until her death in 1878.
Martha Whiting
Boston’s Charlestown Female Seminary, established in 1831, educated notable women. Martha Whiting (1795-1853), it’s first headmistress, was a pioneer in female education and missionary work.
Gandeacteua
Erie woman responsible for the founding of the Saint-François-Xavier mission at Prairie-de-la-Magdelaine in 1600s Canada