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November 1

Charles Dunning was a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh named for pioneering to the Orkney Islands. Dunning was born, it would seem, to uphold the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh at the inception of its second century and to serve as a soldier of courage and fortitude in the greatest spiritual crusade of mankind's history. His pioneering road opened in March 1948 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He perceived that Belfast would "make great strides" should it come to understand the Bahá'í teachings. Within ten weeks he was arranging the first public meetings, to which George Townshend and his son Brian came from Dublin to speak. (more...)
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November 2

Mildred Clark was a pioneer and Knight of Bahá'u'lláh named for pioneering to the Lofoten Islands. Mildred Clark choose pioneering as her field of service from the earliest days of her association with the Bahá'í Faith, and she never relaxed in her service. In the first Seven Year Plan (1937-1944) assigned to the United States she pioneered to Denver, Colorado. In 1946, at the inception of the second Seven Year Plan (1946-1953), she offered to go to Europe and was requested by the European Teaching Committee to settle in Norway where, in 1948, she assisted in the formation of the first Spiritual Assembly of Oslo. In January, 1950 she pioneered to the Netherlands and in 1952 she was asked to go to Luxembourg (more...)
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Mírzá Mahmúd was an eminent follower of Bahá'u'lláh and the only Iranian Bahá'í teacher who was given the chance to meet face to face with a Qajar Shah. He was later identified as one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh. During his life the Islamic divines of Dúghábád caused the governor of the district to have Mírzá Mahmúd arrested for being a Bahá'í. He was sent in chains to Mashhad where from his prison-cell he managed to secretly send a letter to Nasiri'd-Din Shah, who issued an order for his release. The clerics of Mashhad managed to have him exiled, rather than set free, to a remote corner of (more...)
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November 5

Hají Ákhúnd was an eminent follower of Bahá'u'lláh, Hand of the Cause, and Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh. He was living in Mashhad when he accepted the message of The Báb, this caused him to be immediately expelled from the city and the college he was attending. He eventually settled in Tihrán where he accepted Bahá'u'lláh and became a Bahá'í. It is recorded that when there was an outburst against the Bahá'ís in Tihrán, he would wrap his cloak around himself and sit waiting for the guards to come and arrest him. (more...)
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November 6

Mabel Grace Geary was a pioneer and Knight of Bahá'u'lláh named for pioneering to Cape Breton Island. While attending the first All-American International Teaching Conference in Chicago in 1953 the stirring message of the Guardian inspired Grace to offer to pioneer at the beginning of the Ten Year Spiritual Crusade. The difficult years spent in Cape Brenton Island were surmounted by her unwavering faith and characteristic courage. (more...)
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November 7

Leroy Ioas (1896 - 1965) was a Hand of the Cause of God of the Bahá'í Faith. In 1952 he was appointed to the International Bahá'í Council, precursor to the Universal House of Justice where he served until 1961 as Secretary General. Leroy's service to the Faith was outstanding and inspiring to his communities. In 1912 he led his parents to 'Abdu'l-Bahá in a crowded hotel lobby by the radiance which enveloped Him. Although only sixteen, he took the Master for his guide, and was aware of His guidance at several critical periods of his life. (more...)
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November 8

Richard Nolen was a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh named for pioneering to Azores. He was born in Almont, Michigan, March 14, 1914. In 1948, through an advertisement in the area newspaper, he learned of the Bahá'í Faith and met Kenneth and Roberta Christian in Lansing, Michigan. He immediately accepted the Bahá'í Cause and it became the dominating passion of his life. He participated in local, state and national activities and was a tireless, humble and successful teacher. Responding to the call of the beloved Guardian for pioneers to arise in the Ten Year Crusade, Mr. Nolen and his family immediately volunteered to go to a virgin territory. (more...)
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November 9

Violet McKinley (1882-1959) was a pioneer and Knight of Bahá'u'lláh named for pioneering to Cyprus. Born at Enfield, north of London, into the prosperous trading environment of the late Victorian epoch, Violet McKinley (née Watson) was blessed with two great spiritual advantages: an extremely delicate constitution, which kept the thought of the other world very close, and a persistently inquiring mind - she always wanted to know 'Why?' This condition was stimulated by an orthodox but solid education at home. Too frail to go to school, she had a continental governess for eight years, with hard study (more...)
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November 10

Táhirih was an influential poet and theologian of the Bábí faith in Iran. As a prominent Bábí she is highly regarded by Bahá'ís and, and often mentioned in Bahá'í literature as an example of courage in the struggle for women's rights. In 1848 Bahá'u'lláh made arrangements for Táhirih to leave Tehran and attend a conference of Bábí leaders in Badasht. She is perhaps best remembered for appearing in public without her veil in the course of this conference signalling that the Islamic Sharia law was abrogated and superseded by Bábí law. It was at the Badasht conference that she was given the title Táhirih by Bahá'u'lláh, which means "the Pure One".
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November 11

Martha Root was a prominent traveling teacher of the Bahá'í Faith in the late 19th and early 20th century. Shoghi Effendi called her "the foremost travel teacher in the first Bahá'í Century", and named her a Hand of the Cause posthumously. Known by her numerous visits with Heads of State and other public figures. Of special importance was her efforts with Queen Marie of Romania, considered the first Monarch to accept Bahá'u'lláh. (more...)
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November 12

Mírzá Músá surnamed Áqáy-i-Kalím was the only true brother of Bahá'u'lláh. He was later by Shoghi Effendi as one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh. The life of Mírzá Músá was so inextricably bound up with that of Bahá'u'lláh himself, that his life and background mirror the life and travels of Bahá'u'lláh. He was an integral part of correspondence between Bahá'u'lláh and the Bahá'ís. He experienced the same imprisonment, exile, assaults, and degrading circumstances that were given to the small band of family members associated with Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá. In the history of the Bahá'í cause, Mírzá Músá stands out as a loyal and faithful follower until the end. (more...)
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Hasan Balyuzi was a Hand of the Cause of God and prominent Iranian Bahá'í. He was born in Shiraz, Iran in Sept. 1908, he studied at the American University of Beirut and the London School of Economics. He worked for BBC in the Persian Section, part of his work involved translating English literature into Persian. To this day many of his translations remain the standard Persian versions. In 1941 he married Mary Brown, they had five sons. He remarked, "A girl has not been born into our family for two hundred years." He is well known for authoring many books on the Bahá'í Faith. (more...)
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Shrine of the Báb in Haifa, Israel.

Siyyid `Alí Muḥammad (Persian: سيد علی ‌محمد) (October 20, 1819 – July 9, 1850) was a prophet and founder of the Bábí Faith. He was a merchant from Shíráz, who at the age of twenty-five revealed Himself to be the promised Qá'im (or Mihdí). After His declaration He took the title of Báb (Arabic: باب) meaning "Gate." He composed hundreds of letters and books (often termed tablets) in which He stated His mission and defined his teachings, which constituted a new sharí'ah or religious law. His movement eventually acquired tens of thousands of supporters, was virulently opposed by Iran's Shí'í clergy, and was bloodily suppressed by the Iranian government. Thousands of His followers, termed Bábís, died. The Báb was executed by firing squad on July 9, 1850, in the city of Tabríz.

His titles include, among others, the "Primal Point" and the "Point of the Bayán."

The Báb was the forerunner to Bahá'u'lláh. (more...)
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November 21

Quddús (Arabic: قدوس)(c.1820-1849) was the most prominent disciple of the Báb, and the eighteenth and final Letter of the Living. He met the Báb in 1844 while in the city of Shiraz, and immediately recognized Him as the Promised One. Soon afterward, he traveled with Him as His companion on pilgrimage to Mecca, where he conveyed a letter written by the Báb to the Sharif of Mecca. Four years later, he was a pivotal figure at the Conference of Badasht. He was killed shortly after the battle of Shaykh Tabarsi in 1849, at the hands of an angry mob. (more...)
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November 22

Siyyid Káẓim (Arabic: سيد كاظم بن قاسم الحسيني الرﺷتي)‎ (1793-1843) was the son of Sayyid Qasim of Rasht, a town in northern Iran. He was appointed as the successor of Shaykh Ahmad, and led the Shaykhí movement until his death.

He came from a family of well known merchants. He was a Mullah who, through study of the Islamic writing told his students about the coming of the Mahdi and the "Masih" (the return of Christ) and taught them how to recognize them. After his death in 1843, many of his students spread out around Asia, Europe and Africa for the search. (more...)
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November 23

Shaykh Ahmad (Arabic: شيخ أحمد) (1753 - 1826) was the founder of a 19th century Shi'i school in the Persian and Ottoman empires, whose followers are known as Shaykhís. He was a native of the Al-Ahsa region (Eastern Arabian Peninsula), educated in Bahrain and the theological centers of Najaf and Karbilá in Iraq. Spending the last twenty years of his life in Iran, he received the protection and patronage of princes of the Qajar dynasty. (more...)
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