Emma Brown Malone
Emma Brown Malone founded a school to train women ministers in Cleveland
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Catherine Cummins
Irish Sister of Charity and founder member of Cappagh Orthopaedic Hospital
Bertha Mkhize
South African teacher, trade unionist, anti-apartheid and women’s rights activist, who gained legal emancipation as a feme sole operating a business in her own right.
Ann Griffiths
Welsh hymn writer
Anna Tempo
South African religious activist
Francesca Farnese
1600s Italian nun, founder of convents and poet
Esther Pariseau
Known as “the Builder,” Mother Joseph designed and/or supervised construction of 29 schools and hospitals, one of which was Seattle’s first hospital. She is recognized as one of the first architects in Washington Territory.
Dr Cathleen Monaghan
Missionary Sister of St Columban and physician who worked in Hong Kong from 1949 until her death in 1985
Sarah Clarke
20th century Irish nun and civil rights campaigner
Catherine Doyle
1800s Irish nun and military nurse