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Kathryn Kuhlman (May 9, 1907 - February 20, 1976) was an American Christian evangelist who hosted healing services and is best known as a 'faith healer'.

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She had a spiritual experience at age 14 and several years later, she began itinerant preaching with her elder sister and brother-in-law in Idaho. Later, she was ordained by the Evangelical Church Alliance.[1]

Reverend Mother Amanda H. Williams of Brooklyn, New York, a trailblazer for women in Ministry known for her healing ministry helped to birth the healing ministry in Kuhlman.[1]

Burroughs Waltrip was a Texas evangelist. He divorced his first wife, left his family, moved to Mason City, Iowa and started a revival center called Radio Chapel, for which Kuhlman and her pianist friend, Helen Gulliford, helped him raise funds.[2]

After a romance between Waltrip and Kuhlman began, she told her friends that she could not "find the will of God in the matter", seemingly feeling guilt-ridden. Kuhlman's friends tried to encourage her to not marry Waltrip, however she reasoned that Waltrip's wife had left him, not the other way around (the details of their separation are not clear).[3] On October 18, 1938, she secretly married "Mister," as she called him, in Mason City, but the wedding supposedly brought her no peace.[4] The couple had no children and eventually separated in 1944, divorcing in 1948.

Regarding her marriage, in a 1952 interview with the Denver Post, Kuhlman stated, "He charged - correctly - that I refused to live with him. And I haven't seen him in eight years."[5] On many occasions, Kuhlman expressed remorse for her part in the pain caused by the breakup of Waltrip's previous marriage, citing his children's heartbreak as particularly troubling to her. She claimed it was the single greatest regret of her life, second only to the betrayal of her loving relationship with Jesus.[5][clarification needed]

In 1955, in her late 40s, despite being told by doctors about a heart condition, Kuhlman kept a very busy schedule, often traveling across the US and abroad, holding two to six-hour long meetings which could last late into the evenings.[6]

Kuhlman's devotion to her ministry was summed up in the 1976 biography 'Daughter of Destiny' written by Jamie Buckingham; "The television ministry itself required more than $30,000 a week. To stop, to even cut back, would mean she was beginning to fail. The same was true with the miracle services. As the pain in her chest grew almost unbearable, instead of holding fewer services, she increased the number."