At the age of eighty-one Hildegard also known as “Saint Hildegard” and “Blessed Hildegard,” died in September during the year 1179, but not before leaving behind a reputation and list of achievements. Primarily being known for her leadership in the convent at Disibudenburg Monastery, the Saint was also praised for her use of a unique gift, Vox Dei or what we know as the “voice of God.” This remarkable woman also used curative powers of natural objects to heal and doctrine the sick, she was an author counselor, linguist, scientist, philosopher, physician, poet, chancellor, visionary, composer, Abbess, and founder of two convents. Of her many accomplishments, Hildegard was most
A woman once said "Educate a boy, you educate a man, but educate a girl and you educate a family" (Face To Face: We Founded, n.d. pg.1). This woman was Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, born on February 27, 1857, who was an incredible woman with the qualities of a leader and inspiring other women with her speeches (Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead, n.d. pg.1). She changed many women's lives as she made education beyond grade 8 possible for women and girls as well as helping women reach equality with men. It all started when Adelaide went to Ladies College and met John Hoodless whom she married and later had 4 children (Who Is Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, n.d. pg.1). Then, tragedy struck in the family.
Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes Abstract Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes was The first African-American Female Mathematician. She was an outstanding educator and leader in her community. She was born and died in Washington D.C. She was raised Catholic and very active in the Catholic Church. She earned her Doctorate in 1943 from The Catholic University of America. She taught Public school for 43 years in D.C and was also President of the Board of Education.
He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path” (Daily Catholic Quote from Saint Katharine Drexel). She embodied this quote by giving her life to helping the less fortunate including founding the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Black and Native American peoples, opening the first mission schools for Indians, and donating millions of dollars to these oppressed groups of people. Katharine Drexel was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1858. Her mother, Hannah, died five weeks after her birth.
In exchange St. Bueno offered to teach Winefride. Under St. Bueno’s teaching, Winefride made great progress in learning and virtue. With her parent’s permission she made a vow of chastity, to serve God and become a nun. News of her beauty and learning accomplishments spread through the country, gaining the attention of Caradoc, son of Prince Alen who wished to seek her hand in marriage. The thought of Winefride giving herself to God seemed to add to the challenge for Caradoc, who
Lillian D. Wald was born on March 10, 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio. A firm believer in nonviolence, she helped lead the first women peace march in 1914.She was a nurse; social worker; public health official; teacher; author; editor; publisher; activist for peace, women's, children's and civil rights; and the founder of American community nursing. Lillian Wald was from a German-Jewish middle-class family in Cincinnati, Ohio, (her father was an ophthalmic merchant). In 1878, she moved with her family to Rochester, New York where she attended Miss Cruttenden's English-French Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies; upon graduation she tried to enter Vassar College but was repudiated, as the school thought she was too young at 16. In 1889, she joined New York Hospital's School
LOURDES IN FRANCE The origins of its sanctity begin with the fourteen-year old girl Bernadette Soubirous. Between February and July of 1858, Bernadette saw apparitions of a white-robed lady 18 times in a small grotto called Massabiele, near the town of Lourdes. In the apparitions Bernadette was told to instruct the village priest to build a chapel in the grotto, which many people would soon come to visit. On the day of the 16th apparition, March 25, the lady revealed herself as the Blessed Virgin Mary. She is also called Maria de Lourdes.
But finally I was convinced that God called me.” On March 24, 1931 Agnes took her vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience as a sister of Loreto. “She felt inspired to take her name in religious life from a French nun called Thérèse Martin, who prayed for missionaries and their success and died of tuberculosis at the early age
While both never shunned upon the natives, they tried to connect with them in different ways. Bradford congregated with the natives, learning who they really were. Mather wanted to be the native’s salvation, giving them the change to conform to a new life. Knight’s views upon the Native Indians and Native Americas, although new to her time, became very different from that of Bradford and Mather. Knight was not educated, she never wanted to conform or persuade the Native and African Americas, she only wanted to observe them in their pure form.
Arguably the most frequent R.E people have. A famous woman who claimed to have visions of the Virgin Mary was St. Bernadette. The Virgin Mary had instructed St. Bernadette that the spring water in Lourdes had magical, healing powers. When someone has a near death experience, reports have claimed that they can ‘see the light’, hear the voices and even pop out of their body. Events like these have lead people to have Conversion experiences.