1. Kathryn Kuhlman was an American Christian evangelist, preacher and minister who was referred to by her contemporaries and the press as a 'faith healer'.
20 Facts About Kathryn Kuhlman
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Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman was born in 1907 near Concordia, Missouri, where her father was mayor.
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Kathryn Kuhlman was one of four children of German-American parents Joseph Adolph Kuhlman and Emma Walkenhorst.
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Kathryn Kuhlman had a spiritual experience at age 14, and several years later she began itinerant preaching with her elder sister and brother-in-law in Idaho.
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Kathryn Kuhlman traveled extensively around the United States and abroad holding healing meetings between the 1940s and 1970s.
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In 1955, despite being told by doctors about a heart condition in her late 40s, Kathryn Kuhlman kept a very busy schedule, often traveling across the US and abroad, holding two to six-hour long meetings which could last late into the evenings.
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Kathryn Kuhlman had a weekly TV program in the 1960s and 1970s called I Believe In Miracles, which aired nationally.
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Kathryn Kuhlman had a 30-minute nationwide radio program, which featured sermons and frequent excerpts from her healing services in music and message.
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Kathryn Kuhlman's foundation was established in 1954, and its Canadian branch in 1970.
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Kathryn Kuhlman became well known for her "gift of healing" despite, as she often noted, having no theological training.
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Kathryn Kuhlman was friendly with Christian television evangelist Pat Robertson and made guest appearances at his Christian Broadcasting Network and on the network's flagship program The 700 Club.
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In 1975, Kathryn Kuhlman was sued by Paul Bartholomew, her personal administrator, who claimed that she kept $1 million in jewelry and $1 million in fine art hidden away and sued her for $430,500 for breach of contract.
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Kathryn Kuhlman met Texas evangelist Burroughs Waltrip in 1935, when he was a guest speaker at Kathryn Kuhlman's Denver Revival Tabernacle, and the two preachers soon found themselves in a romantic relationship with each other.
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Kathryn Kuhlman's friends tried to encourage her to not marry Waltrip.
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Kathryn Kuhlman claimed it was the single greatest regret of her life, second only to the betrayal of her loving relationship with Jesus.
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Kathryn Kuhlman was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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Kathryn Kuhlman left $267,500, the bulk of her estate, to three members of her family and twenty of her employees.
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The Kathryn Kuhlman Foundation continued, but due to lack of funding, it terminated its nationwide radio broadcast in 1982.
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Kathryn Kuhlman influenced faith healers Benny Hinn and Billy Burke.
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The Kathryn Kuhlman version was later included on the 1992 bootleg recording Ghosts, titled "Into the Spirit Womb".