Great Women Of The Christian Faith (The Christian Library)....

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 Reformation refugees --
Renee of France, a friend of the persecuted during the Reformation --
Anne Askew, she was burned at the stake because of her religious beliefs --
Mme. Barbe Acarie, her hous was a center of religious Renaissance --
Marjory Bowes Knox, the faithful wife of John Knox --
Margaret Stuart Knox, the faithful wife of John Knox Jane Frances Fremoyot de Chantal, her "daughters" went on errands of mercy --
Rose of Lima, the first saint of the New World --
Pocahontas, a famous American Indian convert to Christianity --
Elizabeth Hooton, sixteenth-century preacher --
Marie de l'Incarnation, founder of the oldest North American convent school --
Marguerite Bourgeoys, she founded the first Canadian sisterhood --
Lucy Hutchinson, she typified Puritanism at its best --
Mary Dyer, an early American martyr --
Gulielma Penn, the devoted wife of William Penn --
Elizabeth Bunyan, the heroic wife of the author of Pilgrim's Progress --
Margaret Blagge Godolphin, a righteous example to the Royal Court --
Barbara Heck, the "mother" of a new denomination in America --
Hannah More, she devoted her talents and pocketbook to the needy --
Jane Corneigle Campbell, the wife and mother of the Campbells --
Hannah Marshman, an early missionary to India Sally Thomas, she gave all she had --
Elizabeth Bayley Seton, she founded the first religious sisterhood in the United States --
Lucy G. Thurston, the "mother" of American missions in Hawaii --
Dorothea Lynde Dix, a saint in medicine and philanthropy --
Sarah Platt Haines Doremus, the untiring servant of missions --
Sarah Hall Boardman Judson, the selfless second wife of Adoniram Judson --
Eliza Clark Garrett, a pioneering supporter of religious training --
Emily Chubbuck Judson, the valiant third wife of Adoniram Judson --
Antoinette L. Brown, the first American woman to be ordained as a minister --
Hannah Whitall Smith, she knew the Christian's Secret of a Happy Life --
Clara Swain, the first medical missionary to women and children of India --
Amanda McFarland, the first woman missionary to Alaska --
Isabella Thoburn, a pioneer in Christian education in India Emma Revell Moody, the inspiring wife of Dwight L. Moody --
Bernadette of Lourdes, her faith is enshrined at Lourdes --
Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first American citizen to be declared a saint --
Evelyn Underhill, an exponent of the mystical life.