laywoman

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María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, known as Mama Antula, was an 18th-Century laywoman who is considered by some to be Argentina's first feminist.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2024

Mama Antula was an 18th century laywoman who ministered to the poor and helped keep Jesuit spirituality alive in Argentina after the religious order — to which the pope belongs — was suppressed.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 11, 2024

Each time he travels out of Italy, Francis plucks one layman or laywoman from the Vatican to join his entourage.

From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2015

A Catholic laywoman, Anne Barrett Doyle, who lives in Boston, suggested they should meet.

From New York Times • May 21, 2013

Stingy even in death, she has appropriated to her own use the brass of a 14th century laywoman.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen