69 Facts About Lua Getsinger

Lua Getsinger's husband grew doubtful, their relationship changed, and he sought a divorce.

Lua Getsinger was defended by the leadership of the religion and her reputation increased after her sudden death in Egypt.

Pastors of the First Baptist Church of Hume as Lua Getsinger was growing up included: Horton, Langmade, Reed, Bogart, and Robinson.

Family oral history has Lua Getsinger going to Chicago in the later 1880s.

Family oral history had Lua Getsinger attending the World Parliament of Religions of 1893 in Chicago during the World Columbian Exposition and, it is believed, would have heard of Baha'u'llah.

Lua Getsinger chose dramatic arts training in Chicago rather than New York for intuitional reasons.

Thacher and Lua Getsinger were listed as members of the Oriental Order of the Magi.

Edward was not into religion but accepted an invitation from Thacher to come out to his farm and Lua Getsinger was there too.

Lua Getsinger then developed a strong enthusiasm for religion which he now shared with Lua.

We know little of their courtship and family meetings otherwise; we do know that Lua married Edward C Getsinger May 26,1897.

Lua Getsinger returned to Hume to enthusiastically tell her family about the new religion.

Six people graduated from Lua Getsinger's when visited by Kheiralla in January 1898.

Lua Getsinger wrote of being lonesome with Edward away but filled with purpose from the new religion and excited to hear of the advancing work of the community in Chicago.

Phoebe's response was enthusiastic and she arranged for Lua Getsinger to being a class which started at the Hacienda and then moved to an apartment of hers in downtown San Francisco.

Lua Getsinger gave her a Persian name, 'Liva' which means 'Banner' in English, and Lua believed that Lua Getsinger gave her, as well, a special mission to teach the Faith and granted her extraordinary powers to do so.

That's when the flowers arrived and Lua Getsinger commented she was learning Persian.

Lua Getsinger began studying Persian for 2 weeks learning easy words and memorized one prayer.

Lua Getsinger kept alluding from a material example to a deed to be carried out in a certain spirit.

Lua Getsinger gave her honey dipped bread and asked her to speak with 'words of honey' and washed her face after the meal and urged her to 'wash faces with love'.

Lua Getsinger saw the issue as a personality clash between Kheiralla and Edward.

Later she did one or two paintings of Lua Getsinger that are still in the US National Archives.

Copies of Lua Getsinger's letters were typewritten into 6 pages in 1900 and circulated containing her interpretations, prophecies of Baha'u'llah, and understandings of the life after death.

Lua Getsinger ordered her to return and do right by this friend.

On July 5,1902, Lua got a passport in her own name in New York and lists various facts of her life - she was born in Hume, New York, had been maintained her official residence in Detroit the last 2 years, and the paper work was witnessed by Josephine C Cowles of New York.

Lua Getsinger was there to present a petition to Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, then ruler of Iran, with Mariam Haney, while the Shah was there.

Lua Getsinger began prolonged prayer vigils to be allowed to present a petition in person to the Shah.

Hippolyte Dreyfus assisted Lua Getsinger by translating the petition into French, and to gain an audience.

At first only granted a meeting with the Grand Vizier, Lua Getsinger pressed the matter and finally met directly with the Shah himself.

Lua Getsinger delivered a forceful speech suggesting that such 'uncivilized' cruelty was shaming Persia, and that if the mullas examined the history of Islam, 'they would soon see that the shedding of blood is not a means of annulling, but rather the cause of promulgating every religious movement.

Lua Getsinger was a woman, considered of little account, and, moreover, a western woman, stereotypically morally suspect in eastern male eyes.

Lua Getsinger had no wealth for bribes, or connections inside or outside of Iran.

Lua Getsinger dropped behind and began placing her feet into His footprints.

Lua Getsinger's ankle swelled, the pain became excruciating, till, finally, she sank down with the agony of it.

Lua Getsinger examined her carefully then laid His hands gently on her forehead.

Newspaper coverage in her family's home area appears in October 1903 that Lua Getsinger is thought to be shot and beheaded, but it was a false alarm.

Lua Getsinger again worked on a mission to present a petition in fall of 1903 sent to Teheran; in this effort she shares the story of the Varqa martyrdom.

Edward stayed at the Hannen home Washington DC while Lua Getsinger was long in holy land.

Lua Getsinger co-wrote notes of her pilgrimage which were published as Mercy and Justice April 27,1904.

Lua Getsinger arrived in America July 19,1904, on the SS Finland.

Since her youth Lua Getsinger had tended to a flamboyant mode of dress while avoiding fashions of the day.

Still Lua Getsinger could pass as a local Christian woman in the streets of Haifa at the time.

Lua Getsinger wrote The Practice of Prayer relying on Biblical quotes.

William had been betrothed to Louise Stapfer and upon his death Louise and Lua Getsinger began a deep friendship that would last the rest of Lua Getsinger's life, now just a decade ahead.

Lua Getsinger asked Harlan Ober to go on this service to India in the place of her deceased brother.

Lua Getsinger spoke at the homes of African Americans Rhoda Turner and Pocahontas Pope along with Howard MacNutt.

Only three came to that meeting - Gregory and two others, all black, though Pauline Knobloch Hannen and Lua Getsinger were white ladies acting as host and speaker for the small meeting.

Lua Getsinger continued her travels reaching as far as Montreal by December 12,1907.

Lua Getsinger spoke to large audiences that year and returning each of the next two years.

Lua Getsinger arrived back through New York March 16,1910, via France on the RMS Oceanic coming with Agnes Parsons and Dr Fareed.

Lua Getsinger was among short list of well-known promulgators of the religion never elected to the national administration.

Gregory went on pilgrimage in March 1911 and was carrying a letter of introduction by Edward which someone, perhaps Lua Getsinger, had translated into Persian.

Lua Getsinger and Fareed were visible in multiple cities - San Diego, La Jolla, Point Loma, and gave a talk on the SS California.

Meanwhile Lua Getsinger and Fareed went to Tijuana to give medical assistance to those wounded from a battle, by June 29,1911; probably at the Second Battle of Tijuana.

Lua Getsinger and Fareed had introduced the religion to some 5000 people in California.

Lua Getsinger had been feeling unwell for some time and on arriving in Chicago in spring 1913 came under the care of a doctor.

At some point Martha Root gathered some notes about the preparation of Lua Getsinger to go to India, retold in 1947, which speaks to various attitudes in response to challenges and opposition.

Lua Getsinger wrote back of Christian material being useless and proceeding on highlighting general principles and seeking a translator.

Lua Getsinger left India November 17,1914, and arrived in Ottoman Palestine December 3.

Edward filled for a divorce from Lua Getsinger which was then published in the newspapers in late July, 1915, repeating into August.

Lua Getsinger's occupation was "Lecturer" and she intending to return to America on a scale of months vs years.

Lua Getsinger has been thus favored; 'she is worthy of love.

Lua Getsinger called the family, who telephoned for a doctor.

Lua Getsinger had two trunks of personal effects including clothing, letters, note books, and manuscripts and together with left over monies she had, doctor and funeral expenses were covered by friends.

Lua Getsinger wrote a prayer of visitation which says in part:.

The Bosch family, long close friends of Lua Getsinger, visited her gravesite towards the end of January, 1922.

In 1971 a 4 page article on Lua Getsinger was published in Baha'i News.

Lua Getsinger's life was portrayed in an article of a children's magazine of the religion in 2016 still available online.

Lua Getsinger was among the prominent women of the religion in biographies like Martha Root, Marion Jack and others.

Lua Getsinger was able to be many things to many people.