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2 stories took place here — most often featuring Martha Root, Shoghi Effendi and 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
Stories at this place
Formative Age / Shoghi Effendi (1921–1957) · 2 stories
Martha Root: The Leading Ambassadress of the Faith
Bahá'í Chronicles preserves the biographical record of Martha Root — the small, quiet Pennsylvania newspaperwoman who, in the years between 1919 and her death in 1939, travelled four times around the world as a Bahá'í teacher, met queens and presidents, and was named by Shoghi Effendi *the foremost Hand of the Cause* of the Western world in his time.
The Globe Her Parish: Martha Root in Service to the World
A slight, quiet newspaperwoman from western Pennsylvania, Martha Root gave the last twenty years of her life to a single errand of service — carrying the message of Bahá'u'lláh to the whole world. Between 1919 and her death in 1939 she circled the globe four times, living out of a suitcase, often ill, often with little money, planting the Cause in lands where it had never been heard. Shoghi Effendi called her the foremost Hand raised up in the West in His time.