Antoinette Brown Blackwell
The first woman to be ordained as a minister
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Anna Bartlett Warner
American novelist, who wrote under the pseudonym of Amy Lothrop
Jeanne d’Albret
Queen of Navarre
Saint Catherine of Siena
Saint Catherine of Siena as a child believed herself to have seen a holy vision, and became convinced that God Himself had come to call her to a better life. She gave up childish amusements, and, fasting and praying, even scourging herself, she filled her life with penances in the manner of the grown-up holy men and women about her.
Agnes Repplier
American essayist and critic who contributed to many periodicals such as Scribner’s and the Atlantic Monthly, and has spent much of her time in Europe. Her essays are distinguished for dignity of treatment, a lucid style, and a delicate sense of humor, with not a little irony.
Agnes of Rome
Martyr in the Diocletian Persecution
Anastasia of Sirmium
Martyr in the Diocletian Persecution
Fanny Crosby
Blind song writer who wrote more than 2500 hymns besides many secular songs, cantatas, and lyrical productions of various kinds.
Helen Petrovna Blavatsky
Russian traveler, writer and theosophist
Anne Askew
Protestant martyr