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description: CHAPTER 1 --Women of the early centuries --Vibia Perpetua, early Christian martyr --Helena, mother of Constantine --Macrina, founder of a religious community for women in the Eastern Church --Nonna, mother of Gregory the Divine --Marcela, founder of the first religious community for women in the Western Church --Monica, mother of Augustine --Anthusa, mother of John Chrysostom --Paula, Jerome's inspirer --Hilda, Anglo-Saxon Abbess of Whitby --CHAPTER 2 --Women of the middle centuries --Clare, founder of the Franciscan order of Poor Clares --Elizabeth of Hungary, helper of the poor --Catherine of Siena, revitalized the Church --Joan of Arc, the Deborah of France --Isabella of Castile, first to aid the Church in the New World --Vittoria Colonna, inspirer of Michelangelo --Margaret of Navarre, defender of the Reformation --Jeanne d'Albret, defender of the Reformation --Katherine Von Bora, wife of Martin Luther --Teresa of Avila --beloved woman of the Carmelites CHAPTER 3 --Women of a time of awakening --Anne Hutchinson, the first woman preacher of New England --Margaret Fell Fox, wife of George Fox --Mary Fisher, pioneering missionary in New England --Mme Jeanne Guyon, French mystic --Susanna Wesley, mother of John and Charles Wesley --Lady Huntingdon, eighteenth-century revivalist --CHAPTER 4 --Women who pioneered --"Mother Ann" Lee, founder of the American Shakers --Elizabeth Fry, leader of prison reform --Ann Judson, first American woman missionary to the Far East --Emily H. Tubman, an example of Christian stewardship --Mary Smith Moffat and Mary Moffat Livingstone, missionary mother and daughter --Narcissa Whitman, missionary to the Indians --Florence Nightingale, ministering angel in the Crimean War CHAPTER 5 --Women who built --Catherine Booth, "Mother" of the Salvation Army --Lucy Webb Hayes, faithful first lady --Nettie Fowler McCormick, an international Christian --Amanda Smith, Negro woman evangelist --Lottie Moon, pioneer of the mission fund --Mary Slesor, "White Ma" of Calabar --CHAPTER 6 --Women who advanced --Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, founder of the Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer --Pandita Ramabai, founder of a mission, translator of the Bible --Helen Barrett Montgomery, translator of the New Testament --Mrs. Charles Jones Soony, China's great Christian mother --Teresa of Lisieux, guide of the Little Way --Women Hymn Writers, they sang to the world VIGNETTES OF OTHER CHRISTIAN WOMEN THROUGH NINETEEN CENTURIES --Thecia, she illuminated many by the Word of God --Flavia Domitilla, a Christian charged with atheism --Cecilia, the patroness saint of church music --Olympias, the glory of widows of the Eastern Chuch --Fabiola, the founder of the first hospital in Europe --Pulcheria, she bestowed many benefits ont he fourth-century church --Genevieve, the beloved patron saint of Paris --Clotilda, she converted the Franks to Christianity --Bridget of Ireland, Ireland's best-loved woman saint --Radegonde, a courageous and Godly queen --Theodelinda, she brought the Lombards into the Church --Bertha, England's first Christian queen --Bathildis, a queen who prized freedom --Lioba, she pioneered in the Christianization of Germany --Matilda, she fulfilled Psalm 128 --Roswitha, a religious writer of Medieval times --Adela of Blois, the heroine of the First Crusade Hildegard of Bingen, the first of the German women mystics --Mechthild of Magdeburg, her book was a light in the Middle Ages --Gertrude the Great, a Christian seer and healer --Bridget of Sweden, Scandinavia's most famous saint --Juliana of Norwich, the first Englishwoman to write a spiritual book --Margery Kempe, a wandering fifteenth-century evangelist --Catherine of Genoa, she lived int he world but did not conform to it --Anna Reinhard Zwingli, she opened her home to the first Protestants --Idelette de Bures, a great Reformer's faithful wife --Anna Bullinger, a ministering angel to Reformation refugees --Renee of France, a friend of the persecuted during the Reformation --Anne Askew, she was burned at the stake because of her religious beliefs --Mme. Barbe Acarie, her hous was a center of religious Renaissance --Marjory Bowes Knox, the faithful wife of John Knox --Margaret Stuart Knox, the faithful wife of John Knox Jane Frances Fremoyot de Chantal, her "daughters" went on errands of mercy --Rose of Lima, the first saint of the New World --Pocahontas, a famous American Indian convert to Christianity --Elizabeth Hooton, sixteenth-century preacher --Marie de l'Incarnation, founder of the oldest North American convent school --Marguerite Bourgeoys, she founded the first Canadian sisterhood --Lucy Hutchinson, she typified Puritanism at its best --Mary Dyer, an early American martyr --Gulielma Penn, the devoted wife of William Penn --Elizabeth Bunyan, the heroic wife of the author of Pilgrim's Progress --Margaret Blagge Godolphin, a righteous example to the Royal Court --Barbara Heck, the "mother" of a new denomination in America --Hannah More, she devoted her talents and pocketbook to the needy --Jane Corneigle Campbell, the wife and mother of the Campbells --Hannah Marshman, an early missionary to India Sally Thomas, she gave all she had --Elizabeth Bayley Seton, she founded the first religious sisterhood in the United States --Lucy G. Thurston, the "mother" of American missions in Hawaii --Dorothea Lynde Dix, a saint in medicine and philanthropy --Sarah Platt Haines Doremus, the untiring servant of missions --Sarah Hall Boardman Judson, the selfless second wife of Adoniram Judson --Eliza Clark Garrett, a pioneering supporter of religious training --Emily Chubbuck Judson, the valiant third wife of Adoniram Judson --Antoinette L. Brown, the first American woman to be ordained as a minister --Hannah Whitall Smith, she knew the Christian's Secret of a Happy Life --Clara Swain, the first medical missionary to women and children of India --Amanda McFarland, the first woman missionary to Alaska --Isabella Thoburn, a pioneer in Christian education in India Emma Revell Moody, the inspiring wife of Dwight L. Moody --Bernadette of Lourdes, her faith is enshrined at Lourdes --Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first American citizen to be declared a saint --Evelyn Underhill, an exponent of the mystical life.
language: English
title: Great Women of the Christian Faith
publisher: Barbour Publishing, Incorporated