The Monstrous Regiment of Women

Mary Barrett Dyer, Religious Dissident (executed 1 June 1660) Note : A few days ago, for reasons that I do not understand, an earlier versio...

Margaret Middleton Clitherow (canonized 25 October 1970) I just recently moved from a home I'd lived in for forty years. While I w...

Edith Cavell, British Nurse (executed 12 October 1915) Edith Cavell was a British nurse arrested in Brussels and tried by a German militar...

Mary Barrett Dyer (executed 1 June 1660) So many racists, homophobes, misogynists, and all-around assholes have been using their "...

Saint Barbara (feast day, 4 December) Today is the feast day for the Christian saint and martyr revered as Saint Barbara. Sa...

Emily Wilding Davison (born 11 October 1872) The most well-known aspect of Emily Davison's life may be her death--on 4 June 1913, s...

Sabina of Rome (feast day 29 August) St. Sabina,  detail  of a fifteenth-century altarpiece showing the life of Saint Sabina, Antonio Viva...

Hypatia of Alexandria (martyred 8 [?] March, 415/16) Although biographical information about Hypatia of Alexandria is scarce, several s...

Perpetua of Carthage (martyred 7 March 203) Perpetua of Carthage, mosaic from Ravenna, Italy One of the most intriguing figures...

Eudocia of Heliopolis (martyred 1 March 100) A Samaritan woman living in the Phoenician city of Heliopolis, Eudocia was variously des...

Juliana of Nicomedia (martyred 16 February 304) First mentioned in a fifth-century martyrology attributed to St. Jerome, Juliana of N...

Agnes of Rome (martyred 21 January 304) Born about the year 291 in Rome, Agnes is revered as a saint and martyr. The date of her martyr...