Canoness - Notable Canonesses: Agnes - Canoness of the Order of Our Martyred Lady. She was responsible for the fortress-convent designated Sanctuary 101, located on a world in the Vidar Sector located in the Eastern Fringe of the galaxy. The isolated convent had the misfortune of being the Imperium's first recorded contact with the Necrons, where the Battle-Sisters were massacred by Necron raiders from the Sautekh Dynasty. As the Sisters were about to be overwhelmed by their attackers, Canoness Agness gave her final order to Sister Decima to escape and safeguard the Hammer and Anvil, the personal diary of sermons written by their Order's founder, Saint Katherine. Decima fled into the desert to hide it. Later on, after the Necron presence on Sanctuary 101 was beaten back, a reading from the Hammer and Anvil was utilised to re-consecrate the rebuilt convent.Aspira - Canoness and Saint of the Order of the Bloody Rose who led her Battle-Sisters in a War of Faith that liberated nearly one hundred worlds from the grip of the blasphemous tyrant Denescura. At the inception of the war, Aspira was presented with a magnificent cloak blessed in the Ecclesiarchal Palaces of Terra. Whilst this in itself marked the cloak as a treasured relic, small shards of the Emperor's own armour were woven into it to ward away the blows of the enemy, elevating it to a sacred garment of incomparable spiritual significance. Saint Aspira wore the cloak throughout the War of Faith, striding into the fray heedless of her own safety, secure in her unwavering knowledge that the Emperor protects.Chrisima - Canoness Preceptor of the Order of the Agent Shroud who led her Order at the behest of the notorious Confessor Petasus, who directed a pogrom against the mutants of Charak. The Flamers of her Battle-Sisters cleansed the streets of the foul taint of genetic deviancy.Galatea - Canoness of the Order of Our Martyred Lady on the world of Neva.Lunaria - Canoness of the Order of the Vermillion Hand. In 941.M41, she gave her life fighting alongside the Grey Knights Chapter during the valiant defence of the world of Decimalus, to halt the Plague of Madness caused by the Lord of Change, Ix'thar'ganix, a foe that had long eluded the Grey Knights.Magda Grace - Canoness of the Order of the Sacred Rose, she is a firm advocate of the sacred trinity of Bolter, Flamer and Melta Weaponry. During the war for Lysios she wielded either a Bolter or a Bolt Pistol at all times, refusing the lure of more elaborate weapons point blank. More recently in 998.M41, Canoness Grace led her order against the encroaching Tyranids of Hive Fleet Leviathan in the Cryptus System. During the battle on Lysios, Magda Grace herself was cut down on the threshold of salvation by a Lictor that had hounded her since her first encounter with the Tyranids upon Desseran.Praxedes - Saint Praxedes of Ophelia VII was a Canoness of the Order of Our Martyred Lady and renowned hero of the Imperium of Man's Ultima Segmentum during the Second Tyrannic War. She was martyred upon the Cardinal World of Okassis after leading a valiant defence against the encroaching Tyranid menace.Sariah - Canoness of the Order of the Sacred Rose. In 835.M41, she led a force of Battle-Sisters to the former Shrine World of Piety, which rematerialised after being swallowed by a Warp Storm two standard centuries earlier. Now a Daemon World, Sariah valiantly led her warriors in the retrieval of precious artefacts from the Reliquary of Hope located in the labyrinthine corridors beneath the convent. After three solar days of battling through monster-infested passageways, Canoness Sariah and two Celestians emerge, having recovered the left thigh bone of Saint Dolan and three pages of the ominous Lexicon of Falsehoods from a stasis vault. The surviving Battle-Sisters withdraw to orbit with their prizes just as a fleet of Grey Knights vessels arrives and lays waste to the planet with Cyclonic Torpedoes.Selena Agna - Canoness of the Order of the Sacred Rose who personally led her Order in the purge of the Kaurava System during the large incursion of xenos and Heretic forces that assaulted that system's worlds.Setheno - Formerly a canoness of the Order of the Piercing Thorn, after the order's destruction under mysterious circumstances, of which Setheno was the sole survivor, Setheno became known as the "canoness errant," and sometimes as "The Gorgon," traveling the galaxy alone and continuing to wage war in the name of the Emperor. She served alongside Commissar Sebastian Yarrick in warzones on both Mistral and Armageddon. She also assisted the Recongregator Inquisitor Otto Dagover with an unknown objective involving an unconventional Deathwatch kill-team. Though she had no official Imperial remit, such was the force of her personality and reputation that her commands carried almost the force of an Inquisitor's when dealing with other Imperial personnel. She became a close associate of Commissar Sebastian Yarrick, and accompanied him on his return to Armageddon, shortly before the outbreak of the Second War for Armageddon. She strongly agreed with Yarrick on the incompetence and venality of the world's Planetary Governor, the Overlord Herman von Strab, and she accompanied Yarrick on several of the early missions to save Armageddon's hive cities from the advance of WAAAGH! Ghazghkull. She also stood witness when Colonel Brenken, at Yarrick's instruction, executed General Andrechs of the Armageddon Steel Legion for his blind obedience to von Strab's orders. She later was part of the Imperial force that was deployed to combat the Chaos incursion on the world of Antagonis, which brought her into conflict with the Black Dragons Space Marines. At the time, she had been wielding the relic blade Skarprattar for nearly a Terran century.