Women of vision
Subtitle: sixteen founders of the international Grail movement
By: Marian Ronan and Mary O'Brien
Contributors: O'Brien, Mary, 1935-
Publisher: Apocryphile Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9781944769697
Subjects: Grail movement (Catholic); History; Women in the Catholic Church
Other titles: Sixteen founders of the international Grail movement; 16 founders of the international Grail movement
Description: "Despite historic advances in women's recognition and equality over the past half-century, the significant roles played by Roman Catholic laywomen in church and society still go largely unacknowledged. With Women of Vision: Sixteen Founders of the International Grail Movement, Marian Ronan and Mary O'Brien contribute substantially to remedying this situation. Founded in the Netherlands in 1921, just after World War I, the Grail movement was focused, from the outset, on using laywomen's extraordinary gifts to resolve the crises in which the world found itself. By 1961, the movement had spread to twenty other countries, including Brazil, Australia, the Philippines and nine African countries. Drawn from interviews done with Grail founders in many of these countries, Women of Vision highlights the relentless and often heroic work done by Grail women, founding and staffing hospitals and schools, supporting indigenous women and girls, preparing local women for church and Grail leadership, and in some cases, assuming governance roles in their own countries and at the United Nations."--Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-351) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments -- 2016 introduction -- 2003 introduction:; title: A parable of the Grail : the old woman had many daughters. -- -- Part I. The old wise woman (1921-1940): 1.; title: Lydwine van Kersbergen (The Netherlands) -- -- 2.; title: Rachel Donders (The Netherlands) -- -- 3.; title: Frances van der Schott (The Netherlands) -- -- 4.; title: Hilda Canters (The Netherlands). -- -- Part II. Sent forth into the world (1940-1953): 5.; title: Mary Louise Tully (The United States) -- -- 6.; title: Elizabeth (Bep) Camanada (The Netherlands) -- -- 7.; title: Eileen Schaeffler (The United States) -- -- 8.; title: Antonia (Ton) Brouwer (The Netherlands) -- -- 9.; title: Magdalene Oberhoffer (Germany). -- -- Part III. The vision burned (1953-1970): 10.; title: Maria Teresa Santa Clara Gomes (Portugal) -- -- 11.; title: Marie Elizabeth (Mimi) Maréchal (Beligium) -- -- 12.; title: Rebecca Nebrida (The Philippines) -- -- 13.; title: Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo (Portugal). -- -- Part IV. Envisioning a justice-filled new world (1957-2001): 14.; title: Elizabeth Estencia Namaganda (Uganda) -- -- 15.; title: Imelda Alfred Gaurwa (Tanzania). -- -- Conclusion:; title: The daughters weave on --; title: International Grail vision statement 2011 ---- Bibliography -- Index.