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Mary Hennessey

1800s Irish Sister of Charity and pioneer in primary education

Mary Cullen

Irish nun and founder of the magazine Virgo Potens

Considered the first lady of PA politics, Judge Genevieve Blatt was the first woman elected to a statewide political office in Pennsylvania and became the first woman to sit as a Pennsylvania appellate judge on Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court.

Sophia Mason

1800s Canadian translator and editor

Susie Carson Rijnhart

1800s Canadian physician, medical missionary, and author

Patricia Anne Brennan

Australian Anglican missionary, campaigner, feminist theologian, forensic physician and media presenter

Eliza Hart Spalding

1800s American missionary

Mary Stanislaus MacCarthy

Irish Dominican nun, educator, and poet

Mary Baptist Russell

1800s Irish nun, philanthropist, and educator

Kobera Manual

South African educator and community activist