Bahaipedia:Today's featured individual/April 19
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Amatu'l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum (August 8, 1910 - January 19, 2000), born Mary Maxwell, was the wife of Shoghi Effendi, the head of the Bahá’í Faith from 1921-1957. She was appointed by him as a Hand of the Cause, and served an important role in the transfer of authority from 1957-1963. In 2004, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation viewers voted her number 44 on the list of "greatest Canadians" on the television show 'The Greatest Canadian. Mary Sutherland Maxwell was the long awaited child of William Sutherland Maxwell the renowned Canadian architect and May Maxwell the famous Bahá’í teacher.
