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Mihdí, Mírzá

Son of Bahá’u’lláh, who entitled him "the Purest Branch" (Ghusnu’lláhu’l-Athar); younger brother of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and Bahíyyih Khánum.

 

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Dunn, Clara, and Dunn, John Henry Hyde

Couple who went to Australia in 1920 in response to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s call for worldwide expansion of the Bahá’í Faith and firmly established it in the antipodes; both designated Hands of the Cause of God by Shoghi Effendi—Clara among the second contingent in February 1952, and Hyde in a posthumous appointment announced in April 1952.

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