Martha Root #5: Torchbearer (1919 – 1926)

This 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, and transformative experiences with the Greatest Holy Leaf and the Guardian. With the help of Jean Stannard, she opens the International Bahá’í Bureau in Geneva, then travels through Europe and arrives in Bucharest, where she is about to make Bahá’í history with her first audience with Queen Marie of Romania.

✻ ✻ ✻ Part 3: Enkindlement ✻ ✻ ✻

00:00:00 – Welcome
00:01:59 – Chapter 1: 1920 – 1921
00:09:53 – Chapter 2: Martha’s third journey
00:16:51 – Chapter 3: 1921 – 1922
00:21:39 – Chapter 4: Preparations for the fourth journey
00:25:02 – Chapter 5: Japan
00:30:48 – Chapter 6: China
00:36:52 – Chapter 7: Southeast Asia
00:40:40 – Chapter 8: Australia
00:44:45 – Chapter 9: New Zealand
00:48:12 – Chapter 10: South Africa
00:54:16 – Chapter 11: East Africa
00:58:05 – Chapter 12: Martha’s first pilgrimage
01:04:33 – Chapter 13: Switzerland
01:06:19 – Chapter 14: Germany, Austria, Hungary and Serbia