holy women
Devout religious sisters
Holy women are female figures revered for their spiritual devotion, sanctity, or religious significance.
The term encompasses saints, mystics, prophets, and devout practitioners across traditions: the holy women who witnessed the crucifixion, medieval holy women who reported visions.
It may also refer generally to women of exceptional piety or moral virtue.
- priestessesFemale religious officiants
- vestal virginsCelibate Roman fire priestesses
- Mother TeresaCanonized Albanian missionary
- Hildegard of BingenMedieval polymath and abbess
- Virgin MaryMother of Christ
sacred feminine · Felicity · abbesses · female saints · Isis · nuns · blessed · bride of Christ · pious · devout · shrine · convent · martyrs · stigmata · saints · relics · prayer · beatified
- asceticsascetic, ascetics, hermit, hermits, recluse
- Christian Saintshagiographies, Catholic martyrs, confessors, mystics, hermits
- holy peoplesaint, saints, prophet, martyr, mystic
- holy womenabbesses, Virgin Mary, Saint Mary, Saint Anne, Saint Teresa
- religious livesconversion stories, desert fathers, church fathers, patron saints, spiritual journeys
- Hindu traditionsmandir, aarti, pandit, parampara, tilak
spiritual status
holy womenfallen women
Women deemed sexually immoral
sinners · harlots · scarlet women · women of ill repute · temptresses