International Women's Week - DAILY PROFILES of remarkable women

[Mystica]

Welcome one and all,

 

The Red Ajah is proud to champion the International Woman's day, which occurs this year on Saturday 8th March with an International Women's Week event that will contain a number of different projects.

 

This Daily Profiles thread is dedicated to those women we (that means: you and me) admire, find inspirational or noteworthy.

 

Every day of this week, everyone is invited to post the profile of their special women. You are also welcome to discuss the women you (and your fellow participants) post. Everyone can participate in this, whether you are a White Tower member or not, and we welcome your contributions.

 

At the end of the week, there will be a celebration thread (as there will be other activities happening too during this event, and some of those need their winners announced ;) ). All the women who have been profiled here in this thread will get an honorary spot in the Celebration Tent, with a link back to your post and with your name mentioned as their sponsor.

 

We hope that you will enjoy this event as much as we will and are looking forward to getting to know those women that inspire and empower you.

 

Let the sponsoring begin!

 

[Mystica]

Profile: Gorgo, Queen of Sparta (520-490 BC)

 

In a time where women were considered less than men in all aspects and in more than one place were considered property even, Sparta had already a long standing tradition of equality between the sexes. Women had the same rights as men, could own land and become heirs to their father's wealth. They were allowed (and even expected) to manage their own money and estates as well as that of their husbands while the men were off on their military expiditions. Divorce laws were the same for men and women and there even was sexual equality, which for some might even border on shockingly liberal. For women could openly discuss with their husbands and arrange for their lovers to visit them at their home, with full knowledge of their spouse. Giving birth to as many healthy male children was considered more important to the overall community than personal jealousy.

 

The women of Sparta were not the cuddling, huggy type. Quite the contrary, actually. While they relished in their motherhood, they practiced tough motherly love.

 

I've chosen for my first example, the queen of Sparta as the representative of these liberated and strong women. While there are many aspects of a Spartan's life and culture that we would not readily accept anymore today (such as the concept of slavery), these women represent the strength and independence all other nations had yet to discover in their daughters.

 

Gorgo (Γοργώ) (fl. 480 BC) was the daughter and the only child of Cleomenes I, King of Sparta (r. 520-490 BC) during the 6th and 5th centuries BC. She was the wife of King Leonidas I, Cleomenes' half-brother, who fought and died in the Battle of Thermopylae. Gorgo is noted as one of the few female historical figures actually named by Herodotus, and for her political acumen and wisdom. She is unique for being the daughter of a king of Sparta, the wife of another king of Sparta, and the mother of a third king of Sparta.

source: Wikipedia

 

Anyone that has seen the movie '300' has seen this women played by the actress in the scene where the King kicks the messenger into the pit. The fight portrayed in the movie is the Battle of Thermopylae.

 

Gorgo's childhood was terrible, although she was probably raised like other Spartan girls of noble family (poorly), encouraged in daily physical exercise to strengthen her body, and reared to be married off to an older Spartan husband who would see little of her.[3] According to Herodotus's Histories, at about the age of eight to nine years old, she advised her father Cleomenes not to trust Aristagoras of Miletus, a foreign diplomat trying to induce Cleomenes to support an Ionian revolt against Persians. "Father, you had better have this man go away, or the stranger will corrupt you". Cleomenes followed her advice.

 

Gorgo's most significant role came during the aftermath of the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC), when her husband Leonidas I was killed in battle along with 300 Spartans and many other Greeks. According to Herodotus's Histories, a message from Demaratus arrived at Sparta after the Battle of Thermopylae; it was a warning that Greece was going to be invaded by Xerxes. In order to pass enemy lines without suspicion, the message was written on a wooden tablet and then covered with wax. The Spartan generals did not know what to do with the seemingly blank, wax-covered wooden writing tablet. It was Queen Gorgo who advised them to clear the wax off the tablet.[5]

 

Source: wikipedia

 

 

Most notable quote from Gorgo:

Plutarch quotes Queen Gorgo as follows: "When asked by a woman from Attica, 'Why are you Spartan women the only ones who can rule men?', she said: 'Because we are also the only ones who give birth to men.'"

Source: wikipedia

[Mystica]

Profile: Caroline Thienpont, independence for the physical dissabled

 

This is a woman that is not known in the history books, has no big biography on wikipedia (or a small one) and will probably never be known to most people in the world. Yet she represents the type of woman I really look up to. The type that goes out full force, determined, strong, committed, passionat, to achieve her goal and to make a difference in other people's lives. I am talking about the founder and CEO of the non-profit organisation Hachiko. An organisation in Belgium that buys, trains and distributes guide dogs to the physical dissabled and since a few years is also the only organisation that trains seizur (epilepcy) dogs.

 

Since 1993 Caroline has been fully dedicated to the goal of restoring the independence of the physical dissabled as best as possible. Changing them from 'the chick with the stick' to 'the lady with the dog'. Despite many setbacks, difficulties and to this day no government funding (contrary to the seeing eye dog organisations), Caroline has been the driving force behind this small organisation and has labored non-stop towards helping out as many people as she could. Free of charge, while each dog fully trained costs 12500 euros (exchange rate tool: http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic). She will never gain global recognition, will never be awarded a nobel prize and will forever be just one of the many every day people even in her own country and to most of the city she lives in.

 

But to those, now reaching 100, disabled people that gained back a level of independence, dignity and self worth Caroline is a God's sent.

 

She is an example to all of us, big and small, on how to make a difference even if we never reach the history books or the 7 o'clock news. How strength and compassion outweigh personal glory and how dedication and commitment can change the lives of total strangers. She is not a superstar, nore a rocket scientist. She is not a woman with genius level skills or lacks human flaws. She is human. A person striving each day, every day, for over 15 years now to try to make a stranger's life that little bit better.

 

Caroline empowers hundreds of volunteers and always manages to heighten the flames of passion in everyone she encounters. She is a pittbull fighter when it comes to protecting what needs protecting and she is a no-nonsense person that won't let any wall get in her way into achieving her goal.

 

Definately someone I highly respect, admire and look up to and deserving of a place in my list of remarkable women.

[Narina Menderlin]

Hillary Clinton

 

 

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, she was the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. She was a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2008 election.

 

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Clinton

 

On December 1, 2008, former two-term Sen. Hillary Clinton was nominated to be President Obama's Secretary of State. Her nomination was approved by a Senate vote of 94-2, and sworn in on January 22, 2009.

Clinton was an '08 candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, finishing second to Obama by a narrow margin.

Mrs. Clinton was an activist First Lady during her husband's two terms as President and 12 years as Arkansas governor. She staunchly supporting children's issues, womens' rights and universal health care for all Americans.

 

Link: http://usliberals.about.com/od/liberalpersonalprofiles/p/HillaryClinton.htm

 

“The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.”

 

“Eleanor Roosevelt understood that every one of us every day has choices to make about the kind of person we are and what we wish to become. You can decide to be someone who brings people together, or you can fall prey to those who wish to divide us. You can be someone who educates yourself, or you can believe that being negative is clever and being cynical is fashionable. You have a choice.”

 

"We are Americans, We have the right to participate and debate any administration."

 

 

[Kara_J]

Jane Emily Tomlinson, CBE (21 February 1964 – 3 September 2007) was an amateur English athlete who became well known in the United Kingdom for raising £1.5 million for charity by completing a series of athletic challenges, despite suffering from terminal cancer.

 

She had treatment for breast cancer in 1991, aged 26. Three years after having a lumpectomy, the cancer returned and she had a second mastectomy, and two rounds of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. In 2000, Jane Tomlinson was told that the cancer had spread to her bones and lungs, and was given about 12 months to live.

 

Having been told she had terminal cancer in 2000, Tomlinson decided to embark on a series of marathons and athletic challenges to raise money for charity. She devised a training regime and in May 2001 took part in her first challenge, the 5km Race for Life. In December 2001, she took part in the Leeds Abbey Dash. In April 2002, she ran the London Marathon for the first time and later the New York Marathon. In July that year, Jane Tomlinson presented the Jubilee baton to The Queen in Leeds, in August she did the London Triathlon and in October the Great North Run.

 

Tomlinson completed the Ironman Triathlon, the only person with incurable cancer ever to do so. She also completed two half Ironmans. In 2002 at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards, she was given the Helen Rollason Award and was made a MBE in 2003. Also in 2003, from March to April, she cycled with her brother Luke Goward from John o' Groats to Land's End, a distance of 1060 miles. The following year she and her brother used a tandem to cycle 2000 miles across Europe from Rome to Leeds, and climbed Mont Ventoux on the journey. In 2005, she won a Pride of Britain award.

 

 

In July and August 2006, Tomlinson spent nine weeks cycling 4200 miles across the United States, raising £250,000. This was her final athletic challenge.

 

Having published The Luxury of Time in 2005, she released the second volume of her memoirs You Can't Take It With You in 2006. In January 2007, Mike and Jane Tomlinson launched Jane Tomlinson's Run For All, a 10km charity run that took place in June that year. Having had four courses of chemotherapy, she developed chronic heart disease. Having been elevated to a CBE in June 2007, Jane Tomlinson died in St Gemma's Hospice, Leeds, West Yorkshire less than three months later on 3 September. On 15 November 2007 Tomlinson's ten-year-old son, Steven, collected her CBE from The Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace.

 

 

Reference: Wikipedia

 

Jane was an inspirational woman. She fought to raise money for charity despite having a terminal illness and a life that was only meant to last 12 months at the most. 7 years later she finally succumbed to the ravages of that disease but not without giving life her all. Her charity has now raised over £2million for children and cancer charities and has had to up the target to £5million. An impressive woman indeed.

[Mystica]

wow Kara, that's some dedication there. Definately a woman to remember that! *nods*

 

Clinton is in Brussels at this very moment!! :D only for two days though, I think :(

[Raeyn]

 

Good stuff thusfar.  I'm trying to think of someone to share for this, but... slow in coming, 'cause sleepy-brained! :D

[claireducky]

 

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks(February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement".

 

On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. Her action was not the first of its kind: Irene Morgan, in 1946, and Sarah Louise Keys, in 1955, had won rulings before the Supreme Court and the Interstate Commerce Commission respectively in the area of interstate bus travel. But unlike these previous individual actions of civil disobedience, Parks' action sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

 

Parks's act of defiance became an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement and Parks became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including boycott leader Martin Luther King, Jr., helping to launch him to national prominence in the civil rights movement.

 

Parks eventually received many honors ranging from the 1979 Spingarn Medal to the Congressional Gold Medal, a posthumous statue in the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall, and the posthumous honor of lying in honor at the Capitol Rotunda.

 

At the time of her action, Parks was secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and had recently attended the Highlander Folk School, a Tennessee center for workers' rights and racial equality. Nonetheless, she took her action as a private citizen "tired of giving in". Although widely honored in later years for her action, she also suffered for it, losing her job as a seamstress in a local department store. Eventually, she moved to Detroit, Michigan, where she found similar work. From 1965 to 1988 she served as secretary and receptionist to African-American U.S. Representative John Conyers. After retirement from this position, she wrote an autobiography and lived a largely private life in Detroit. Her death in 2005 was a front-page story in the United States' leading newspapers. (source Wikipedia)

 

Rosa Parks may be a role model for the civil rights movement and African Americans, but I also feel she deserves a place as a leader for minorities everywhere, including for women.  It took not just a strong person to say "no" on the bus that day, but a strong WOMAN.  So this is why I think she is deserving of her spot in the Red Ajah Remarkable Women List.

 

Claire

 

 

[Dwynwen]

Jane Goodall

 

Jane Goodall is an anthropologist who is best known for her observational studies of chimpanzees in Africa.  I picked her because I wanted to pick a well-known female social scientist.  Here's some information about her:

 

 

"In the summer of 1960, 26-year-old Jane Goodall arrived on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in East Africa to study the area's chimpanzee population.

 

Although it was unheard of for a woman to venture into the wilds of the African forest, the trip meant the fulfillment of Jane Goodall's childhood dream. Jane’s work in Tanzania would prove more successful than anyone had imagined.

 

At first, the Gombe chimps fled whenever they saw Jane. But she persisted, watching from a distance with binoculars, and gradually the chimps allowed her closer. One day in October 1960 she saw chimps David Graybeard and Goliath strip leaves off twigs to fashion tools for fishing termites from a nest. Scientists thought humans were the only species to make tools, but here was evidence to the contrary. On hearing of Jane's observation, her mentor Louis Leakey said: "Now we must redefine tool, redefine man, or accept chimpanzees as humans."

 

Also in her first year at Gombe, Jane observed chimps hunting and eating bushpigs and other animals, disproving theories that chimpanzees were primarily vegetarians and fruit eaters who only occasionally supplemented their diet with insects and small rodents.

 

In 1965, Jane earned her Ph.D in Ethology from Cambridge University. Soon thereafter, she returned to Tanzania to continue research and to establish the Gombe Stream Research Centre.

 

It is hard to overstate the degree to which Dr. Goodall changed and enriched the field of primatology. She defied scientific convention by giving the Gombe chimps names instead of numbers, and insisted on the validity of her observations that animals have distinct personalities, minds and emotions. She wrote of lasting chimpanzee family relationships...

 

...In 1977, Jane founded the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation to provide ongoing support for field research on wild chimpanzees. Today, the mission of the Jane Goodall Institute is to advance the power of individuals to take informed and compassionate action to improve the environment for all living things. The Institute is a leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats and is widely recognized for establishing innovative community-centered conservation and development programs in Africa and the Roots & Shoots education program in nearly 100 countries."

 

Quoted from:  http://www.janegoodall.org/jane/default.asp

 

 

 

 

 

[Taya]

Great women! Love this thread!

[Mystica]

fantastic profiles and I actually know Jane Goodall!! Saw several documentaries on her. I believe they also made a movie after her life with the apes.

 

 

[Taymist]

Helen Keller

 

 

Helen Keller born in 1880, was an American author, political activist and lecturer. The story of how Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language has become known worldwide through the depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.

 

A prolific author, Keller was well traveled and was outspoken in her opposition to war. She campaigned for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and socialism, and many other causes.

 

Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, to Captain Arthur H. Keller, a former officer of the Confederate Army, and Kate Adams Keller, a cousin of Robert E. Lee. Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf; it was not until she was nineteen months old that she contracted an illness which could have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last long, but it left her deaf and blind.

 

In 1886, her mother, dispatched young Helen, accompanied by her father, to seek out Dr. J. Julian Chisolm, an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Baltimore. He subsequently put them in touch with Alexander Graham Bell, who was working with deaf children at the time. Bell advised the couple to contact the Perkins Institute for the Blind. Michael Anaganos, the school's director, asked former student Anne Sullivan, herself visually impaired and then only 20 years old, to become Keller's instructor. It was the beginning of a 49-year relationship.

 

Anne Sullivan arrived at Keller's house and immediately began to teach Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with d-o-l-l for the doll that she had brought Keller as a present. Keller's big breakthrough in communication came when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of "water"; she then exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.

 

Starting in May 1888, Keller attended the Perkins Institute for the Blind. In 1894, Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan moved to New York to attend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf and Horace Mann School for the Deaf. In 1896, they returned to Massachusetts and Keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance, in 1900, to Radcliffe College. In 1904, at the age of 24, Keller graduated from Radcliffe, becoming the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.

 

Keller went on to become a world-famous speaker and author. She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities amid numerous other causes. She was a suffragist, a pacifist, a Wilson opposer, a radical Socialist, and a birth control supporter. In 1915, Helen Keller and George Kessler founded the Helen Keller International (HKI) organization. This organization is devoted to research in vision, health and nutrition. In 1920, she helped to found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Keller met every US President from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson and was friends with many famous figures, including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin, and Mark Twain.

 

 

On September 14, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded Helen Keller the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the United States' highest two civilian honors. In 1965 she was elected to the Women's Hall of Fame at the New York World's Fair.

 

Keller devoted much of her later life to raise funds for the American Foundation for the Blind. She died in her sleep on June 1 1968, passing away 26 days before her 88th birthday.

 

(Source: Wikipedia)

[Charis alAslan]

SOJOURNER TRUTH

Quoted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth

 

Sojourner Truth (1797–November 26, 1883) was the self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an American slave, abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York. Her best-known speech, Ain't I a Woman?, was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.

 

Truth was born into slavery around 1797. She was one of thirteen children born to James and Elizabeth Baumfree, who were slaves of Colonel Johannes Hardenbergh. After the colonel's death, ownership of the family slaves passed to his son, Charles Hardenbergh. After the death of Charles Hardenbergh in 1806, Truth, known as Belle, was sold at an auction. She was about 9 years old and was included with a flock of sheep for $100 to John Neely, near Kingston, New York. Until she was sold, Truth spoke only Dutch. She suffered many hardships at the hands of Neely, whom she later described as cruel and harsh and who once beat her with a bundle of rods. Truth previously said Neely raped and beat her daily. Neely sold her in 1808, for $105, to Martinus Schryver of Port Ewen, a tavern keeper, who owned her for 18 months. Schryver sold her in 1810, for $175, to John Dumont of West Park, New York. Although this fourth owner was kindly disposed toward her, his wife found numerous ways to harass Truth and make her life more difficult.

 

Late in 1826, Truth escaped to freedom with her infant daughter, Sophia. She had to leave her other children behind because they were not legally freed in the emancipation order until they had served as bound servants into their twenties. She later said: “I did not run off, for I thought that wicked, but I walked off, believing that to be all right.”

 

Truth had a life-changing religious experience during her stay with the Van Wageners, and became a devout Christian. On June 1, 1843, Truth changed her name to Sojourner Truth and told her friends, "The Spirit calls me, and I must go." She became a Methodist, and left to make her way traveling and preaching about abolition. In 1844, she joined the Northampton Association of Education and Industry in Massachusetts. Founded by abolitionists, the organization supported women's rights and religious tolerance as well as pacifism. While there, Truth met William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and David Ruggles. In 1846, the group disbanded, unable to support itself.

 

In 1851, she left Northampton to join George Thompson, an abolitionist and speaker. In May, she attended the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio where she delivered her famous speech Ain't I a Woman, a slogan she adopted from one of the most famous abolitionist images, that of a kneeling female slave with the caption "Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?"

 

    Reminiscences by Frances Gage

    Akron Convention, Akron, Ohio, May 1851

 

    "There were very few women in those days who dared to "speak in meeting"; and the august teachers of the people were seemingly getting the better of us, while the boys in the galleries, and the sneerers among the pews, were hugely enjoying the discomfiture, as they supposed, of the "strong-minded." Some of the tender-skinned friends were on the point of losing dignity, and the atmosphere betokened a storm. When, slowly from her seat in the corner rose Sojourner Truth, who, till now, had scarcely lifted her head. "Don't let her speak!" gasped half a dozen in my ear. She moved slowly and solemnly to the front, laid her old bonnet at her feet, and turned her great speaking eyes to me. There was a hissing sound of disapprobation above and below. I rose and announced "Sojourner Truth," and begged the audience to keep silence for a few moments."

 

    "The tumult subsided at once, and every eye was fixed on this almost Amazon form, which stood nearly six feet high, head erect, and eyes piercing the upper air like one in a dream. At her first word there was a profound hush. She spoke in deep tones, which, though not loud, reached every ear in the house, and away through the throng at the doors and windows."

 

Over the next decade, Truth spoke before dozens, perhaps hundreds, of audiences. From 1851 to 1853, Truth worked with Marius Robinson, the editor of the Ohio Anti-Slavery Bugle, and traveled around that state speaking. In 1853, she spoke at a suffragist "mob convention" at the Broadway Tabernacle in New York City; that year she also met Harriet Beecher Stowe. In 1856, she traveled to Battle Creek, Michigan, to speak to a group called the Friends of Human Progress. In 1858, someone interrupted a speech and accused her of being a man; Truth opened her blouse and revealed her breasts.

 

Truth delivered her best-known speech in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention. The speech has become known as Ain't I a Woman? after Truth's refrain. The speech as shown here has been revised from the 19th century dialect in which Truth spoke.

 

“ Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about?

 

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne five children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

 

Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? That's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or Negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?

 

Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

 

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it. The men better let them.

 

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.

”

 

        --Sojourner Truth

 

Truth spoke about abolition, women's rights, prison reform, and preached to the Michigan Legislature against capital punishment. Not everyone welcomed her preaching and lectures, but she had many friends and staunch support among many influential people at the time...

 

Several days before Truth died, a reporter came from the Grand Rapids Eagle to interview her. "Her face was drawn and emaciated and she was apparently suffering great pain. Her eyes were very bright and mind alert although it was difficult for her to talk." Her last words to her interviewer were, "Be a follower of Jesus." Truth died on November 26, 1883, at her home in Battle Creek, Michigan, and was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Battle Creek, beside other family members.

[Elgee]

I don't know if we're supposed to make comments, but I could not refrain after reading Charis' post. What an extraordinary woman! It is incomprehensible to most of us, I think, that people could have been so unbelievably cruel. And I'm not even talking about the abuse of slaves, but the concept of slavery itself. And most of those people called themselves Christians! Which makes it even more remarkable that this woman converted to the Christian Faith.

 

Thanks for that one, Charis.

[Mystica]

comments and conversation here is very welcome! :D

 

Yes, Charis, what a remarkable woman indeed! *respect*

[Charis alAslan]

Much obliged to you all!  ;D