biography
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McPherson, Aimée Semple
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née Kennedy
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| female
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| lived:
| (1890–1944)
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| biography:
| Pentecostal evangelist and healer, born near Ingersoll, Ontario, SE Canada. Widowed shortly after her first marriage, she became hugely successful as an evangelist. In 1918 she founded the Foursquare Gospel Movement in Los Angeles, and for nearly two decades conducted a flamboyant preaching and healing ministry in the Angelus Temple, which cost her followers $1·5 million to construct. She had her own radio station, Bible school, and magazine. She married three more times, had many legal actions against her over the alleged misuse of church funds, and mysteriously disappeared for five weeks in 1926, claiming to have been kidnapped. |
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