This week’s episode in “The Life of Martha Root” is the final installment of the series, episode 8: Consecration (1937 – 1939). This is the story of Martha’s 15-month tour of India, Pakistan, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka in 1937 and 1938, her visit to Australia and New Zealand, her last teaching trip in Fiji, and her […]
Read MoreThis week’s episode in “The Life of Martha Root” is episode 7: Perseverance (1926 – 1937). During this monumental decade, Martha travels 128 times between 43 countries, has 26 audiences with royalty and presidents (including 9 with Queen Marie) attends 24 Congresses, visits 30 German universities and 40 America universities, all while she becomes sicker […]
Read MoreThis week’s episode in “The Life of Martha Root” is episode 6: Royalty (1926 – 1938) and is devoted to the life of Queen Marie of Romania, her encounter with the Bahá’í Faith through Martha Root and her life until her passing. This episode covers Queen Marie’s personal life in detail from her lineage as […]
Read MoreThis week’s episode in our series « Martha Root » is episode 5: Torchbearer (1919 – 1962). Martha Root travels to Japan, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, The Philippines, Australia and Tasmania, New Zealand, South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Switzerland, Germany, Serbia, and Hungary. 1925 marks the year of her first pilgrimage, her life long dream, […]
Read MoreThis week’s episode in our series « Martha Root » is episode 3: 4: Proclamation (1919). Martha Root singlehanded opens the entire contient of South America to the Faith and becomes the first Bahá’í to set foot in 7 countries: Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Panama and Cuba and crosses the Andes on a mule in […]
Read MoreThis week’s episode in our series « Martha Root » is episode 3: Enkindlement (1912 – 1919) and covers 7 years in the life of Martha Root, including ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s visit to America and its transformative effect on Martha, her first journey around the world in 1915, the end of her newspaper career, a new chapter […]
Read MoreThis week’s episode in our series « Martha Root » is episode 2 : Search (1902 – 1912) and covers the 4 years of Martha’s career as a journalist which include a residency as special envoy of the Gazette at the World’s Fair in Saint Louis, but the core of this episode is Martha’s discovery, […]
Read MoreThis week’s episode in our series « Martha Root » is episode 1 : Calling (1872 – 1908) and covers the birth of Martha Root and her family history, her childhood in Cambridge Springs, her high school and university studies, her short-lived career as a school principal, her amazing success as a Shakespearean reader, and […]
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