Great Women of the Christian Faith
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 Re