Catherine McAuley
Irish educator, social worker, and religious foundress
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Sheila Cloney
Protagonist in the 1957 Fethard-on-Sea religious boycott in Ireland
Jeanne Marie Guyon
French religious writer, remembered for the persecutions she experienced because of her views.
Dorothy Day
Founder of the Catholic Worker, activist and social reformer
Grace Hoadley Dodge
American philanthropist, and leader in religious and educational work.
Marguerite of Navarre
French politician, religious reformer, literary patron, and author.
Eva Burrows
In 1986 she was elected General of the Salvation Army and was the second woman ever elected to this world-wide position.
Susanna Wesley
“She was the mother of Methodism in a religious and moral sense; for, her courage, her submissiveness to authority, the high tone of her mind, its independence and self-control, the warmth of her devotional feelings, and the practical direction given to them, came up and were visibly repeated in the character and conduct of her son.”
Sarah Flower Adams
English poet and the author of several beautiful hymns
Angélique Arnauld
French abbess and religious influence