Alice Dorothy Baer
American publishing company executive and the founder of Modern Curriculum Press, In.
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Anne O’Hare McCormick
The first woman on the editorial board of the New York Times (NYT) (1936-54) and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence (1937)
Mary Ellen Czelusniak
Deaf woman who ministered to the Catholic hearing impaired community of Cleveland.
Mary Xavier Mehegan
Mother Mary Xavier Mehegan (1825-1915) emigrated from Ireland to New York in 1842. She made her profession of vows in 1847 as Sister Mary Xavier and spent the next twelve years as a Sister of Charity in New York.
Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor is considered one of America’s greatest fiction writers and one of the strongest apologists for Roman Catholicism in the twentieth century.
Dr Attracta Rewcastle
Irish doctor, politician, and the first female Commissioned Officer in the Royal Navy
Marilyn Morheuser
Marilyn J. Morheuser (1924-1995), was the director and leading attorney of the Education Law Center in Newark, New Jersey.
Augusta Theodosia Drane
Intellectual ‘warrior nun’
Antoinette de Saint-Étienne
First Nations nun who sang for a queen
Ellen Courtenay
1800s Irish woman who denounced a man who seduced, impregnated and abandoned her