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The Methodist Church Primitive Methodist Church, U.S.A.circuit rider revivalism Protestantism Lutheranism Baptist Anglicanism Calvinism Church of England Church of Christ free church Society of Friends The Protestant Heritage Congregationalism

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Anna Howard Shaw.

Anna Howard Shaw

American minister

Lucy Jane Rider Meyer

American social worker and educator

Belle Harris Bennett

American church worker

William Williams

British religious leader

Asbury, Francis

Francis Asbury

American clergyman

Thomas Charles

Welsh religious leader

Embury, portrait by an unknown artist

Philip Embury

British-American preacher

John Wesley

John Wesley

English clergyman

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Holy week. Easter. Valladolid. Procession of Nazarenos carry a cross during the Semana Santa (Holy week before Easter) in Valladolid, Spain. Good Friday

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