Lua Getsinger

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Louise "Lua" Aurora Getsinger (née Moore) (1 November 1871, Hume, NY – 1 May 1916, Cairo, Egypt) known as Lua Getsinger was one of the first Western members of the Bahá'í faith, becoming a member in 1897. A prominent disciple of `Abdu'l-Bahá, she was given the title "Herald of the Covenant" and "Mother Teacher of the West" by 'Abdu'l-Baha.

Lua was the sixth of 10 children born to Ellen McBride (born 1843) and her husband Reuben D. Moore in Hume, New York, a rural small town located in northwestern New York State's Wyoming County, about 90 kilometers south of Lake Ontario.2

Since her youth she had tended to a colorful mode of dress and avoiding fashions of the day. When `Abdu'l-Bahá asked her to travel in the East for him he asked her to dress in a less conspicuous fashion. She then designed a form of dress with a royal dark blue of inset panels of different fabric with silk trimmings. Her clothing generally appears dark in period photos, however in actuality her clothing was not dour but a contrast of colors against her Caucasian skin. `Abdu'l-Bahá discouraged other women from emulating her style.^[1]

References

↑ Armstrong-Ingram, R. Jackson (1998). Written in Light; `Abdu'l-Bahá and the American Bahá'í Community. Los Angeles, USA: Kalimat Press. p. 22. ISBN 1-890688-02-9.

2. Lua Getsinger: Herald of the Covenant by Velda Piff Metelmann (George Ronald, Publisher, 1997, 46 High Street, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 2DN) ISBN 0-85398-416-6

Persondata
Name	Getsinger, Lua
Alternative names	Getsinger, Louise Aurora
Short description	Bahá'í faith member
Date of birth	1871
Place of birth
Date of death	1916
Place of death

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