I think, this is a fascinating biography! A courageous woman!
Apparently, not until the recent German Pope was she properly recognized by the Catholic Church "Ward was declared venerable by Pope Benedict XVI on 19 December 2009."
"One of these was that it was essential to educate girls. She said in 1612, "There is no such difference between men and women that women, may they not do great things? And I hope in God that it may be seen in time to come that women will do much." In 1609 they established themselves as a religious community at Saint-Omer and opened schools for girls.
Although the venture was a great success, and grew in the 1610s and 1620s, it was still controversial at the time, and it resulted in censure and opposition as well as praise. The sisters in her religious community were called "galloping girls". Her idea was to enable women to do for the church in their proper field what men had done for it in the Society of Jesus. ..."
Credits: Prometheus newsletter
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