Leonora Armstrong

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Leonora Holsapple Armstrong (June 23, 1895 – October 17, 1980) was the first bahá'í to establish in Brazil and she is regarded as a 'Spiritual Mother of the Bahá'ís of Latin America'. She went as a pioneer to Brazil in 1921 when she was only 25 years old and due to her efforts and services for the Bahá'í Faith in Brazil, she was appointed Counciler in 1973 by the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing institution of the Bahá'í Faith.