Catholic Archives - Infinite Women

Anna Reinhart

Anna Reinhart was a young woman of Zürich known for her exceptional beauty who secretly married one John von Knonau in 1504 after his father forbade their relationship.

Jeanne de Jussie’s Short Chronicle (1535) is an eyewitness account by the nun Jeanne de Jussie (l. 1503-1561) relating how the Protestant Reformation in Geneva, Switzerland, impacted the lives of the sisters of her convent of Poor Clares.

Margaret Carroll

1800s Irish-American Sister of Mercy, educator, historian, and writer

Kathleen O’Meara

1800s Irish novelist and biographer

Katharine O’Mahoney

1800s Irish editor, educator, and writer

Julia McGroarty

1800s Irish nun and educator

Mary Clare Moore

1800s Irish Sister of Mercy, foundress, Crimean war nurse, and teacher

Geraldine Penrose-Fitzgerald

Irish novelist and catholic convert

Margaret Anna Cusack

1800s Irish nun and author

Madonna Buder

Sister Madonna Buder, also known as the “Iron Nun,” competed in her first triathlon in 1982 at age 52—and then did around 400 more over the next four decades.