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Messages to Canada
Author: Shoghi Effendi
Source: Bahá’í Canada Publications
Pages: 276
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Letter of 22 April 1940

[From the Guardian:]

22 April 1940

To an individual believer
APPRECIATE MESSAGE PRAYING FRIENDS FAITHFULLY FOLLOW MAY MAXWELL’S1 NOBLE EXAMPLE LOVE.

SHOGHI RABBANI
1.May Ellis Maxwell—spiritual mother of the Canadian Bahá’í community, became a believer in 1898, visited ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Haifa in 1899 and returned to Paris to found the first Bahá’í centre on the European continent, married Sutherland Maxwell and settled in Montreal in 1902, achieved “the priceless honour” of a “martyr’s death” in Argentina in 1940. For a review of the vast range of her contributions to the Faith in Europe and America, see The Bahá’í World Vol. VIII, 631–642, In Memoriam.  [ Back To Reference]
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