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| May Bolles Maxwell |
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| Born in Englewood, New Jersey, USA, in January 1870. She heard of the Faith from Lua Getsinger while in Paris and was among the first party of Western pilgrims to meet ‘Abdu'l-Bahá in 1898—9. ‘Abdu'l-Bahá instructed her to remain in Paris and teach the Faith there. This she did, making Paris the first Bahá'I centre on the European continent. In 1902 she married Sutherland Maxwell, the architect of the Shrine of the Báb. |
| May Maxwell served the Faith selflessly for forty years as a teacher and administrator. In 1940 she responded to an appeal of the Guardian for pioneers to go to South America and went to Buenos Aires where she died shortly after her arrival. Shoghi Effendi elevated her to the rank of a martyr on her death. |
| May Maxwell is the mother of Amatu'l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih K̲h̲ánum. |
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