lived the 11th and 12th centuries
Saint Hildegard
doctor of the church; sage and mystic; had visions and invented her own
language
Saint Hildegard
founded a convent; scientist, composer, wrote the morality play
Saint Hildegard
lived the 14th and 15th centuries
Julian of Norwich
deathly ill at 30 had series of 16 visions; anchoress; asceticism
Julian of Norwich
lived the 16th century; Protestant reformation
Saint Teresa of Avila
mother died young, sent to convent at 16 to be educated
Saint Teresa of Avila
nun of carmelite order; severe illness (malaria); visions; levitations; traveled
Spain to set up convents
Saint Teresa of Avila
lived 19th and 20th centuries; fugitive slave act of 1850
Harriet Tubman
lived in dorchester Maryland; sisters sold into slavery; couldn't read; injured at
13
Harriet Tubman
married freed black man; prayed for god to kill her master; sent coded
messages though song; ended up in Philadelphia
Harriet Tubman
liberated family; led 13 trips to Maryland liberating 70 people; kept herself mf
strapped; nickname Moses
Harriet Tubman
lived 19th and 20th centuries; catholic worker movement; suffrage movement
Dorothy Day
activist, journalist; converted to Roman Catholicism; catholic worker
movement; distribution and pacifism
Dorothy Day
lived 1774-1821
Elizabeth Seton
a woman who lived in seclusion, usually for religious reasons
anchoress
book written by Julian of Norwich; focuses on God's love and as a feminine
divine
Revelations of Love
first woman to write a book in English
Julian of Norwich
a network of secret routes and safe houses, primarily used by enslaved
African Americans to escape into free states
Underground Railroad