Elizabeth of Hungary
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231)
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Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc, or Jeanne d’Arc, the Maid of Orleans (1412-1431) a French heroine and martyr.
Isabella of Castile
Isabella (1451-1504), Queen of Castile
Helena Flavia
Saint Helena (247-328), wife of Constantius Chlorus, and mother of Constantine the Great. She won the gratitude of the Christian community by her zeal for the advancement of religion and her acts of piety and munificence.
Theodora
Byzantine empress, wife of Justinian I
Saint Genevieve
WhenvClovis besieged the city, Genevieve, with her sisters in religion, set out on an expedition for the relief of the starving people and successfully conveyed to Paris a supply of provisions. After Clovis’s conversion the city opened its gates to him by her advice. In 511 she formed the plan of erecting a church in Paris in honor of Saints Peter and Paul.
Hildegard von Bingen
German abbess and mystic who organized a school of nurses for service in the hospitals; noted composer whose works are still performed today, as well as a brewer and herbalist who described using hops in beer.
Mary Augusta Humphry Ward
Immensely popular English novelist.
Dr Anna Howard Shaw
Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), an American suffragist leader, minister and physician.
Corita Kent
During her lifetime, and especially in the twenty years following her death, Kent’s work never quite worked its way into the mainstream. Being a female artist and a nun, she did not fit into the detached, jaded aesthetic narrative of Pop.