Author - Bahá'í Chronicles

We simply want to provide direct access to the heroes and heroines who have recognized and served the Bahá’í Faith and mankind. Our hope in sharing these stories is to offer enlightenment, respect and a wholehearted appreciation for the Gift.

B Stories

Isabella D. Brittingham

In addition to her book, Brittingham became an early traveling teacher for the Bahá’í Faith, making her perhaps the most prominent American Bahá’í woman in the...

B Stories

Norman Bailey

Norman’s parents had moved to South Africa immediately after WWII and he had entered Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, with the intention of...

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Abu’l-Qásim of Sultán-Ábád

On foot, free of every tie, they took to the plains and hills, seeking their way across trackless waters and desert sands.

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Husayn Effendi Tabrízí

He shouted aloud, was frenzied, was drunk with the music of the new message. He escaped from his debits and credits, set out to meet the Lord of his heart, and...

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Florence Eleanor Reed Morton

In a dream one night, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s face appeared to her in a blinding light. Florence later recalled, “The results of that dream must have been imprinted on...

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Moro Baruk

It was Paule who travelled to New Jersey from Quebec and introduced me to the Faith as we fell in love with one another. Paule was originally French Catholic...

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Stanley P. Bolton

Australian Stanley P. Bolton was the first Bahá'í to arrive in Tonga — he arrived on January 25, 1954.

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Robert Sengstacke Abbott

Robert Sengstacke Abbott was an African American lawyer, newspaper publisher, and an early adherent of the Bahá’í religion in the United States.  Abbott is the...

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Robert Hayden

Hayden was born Asa Bundy Sheffey. His parents were Ruth and Asa Sheffey, who separated before his birth, whereupon he was raised by a foster family that lived...