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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Mary Baker Eddy |
 | | Mary Morse Baker, the sixth and last child of Mark Baker and Abigail Ambrose Baker, was born at Bow, near Concord, N. H., U.S.A., on July 16, 1821 Her father was a farmer and member of a Congregational church. |
 | | Eddy formed the Christian Scientist Association in 1876 (and the Church of Christ, Scientist, in 1879), and married Asa Gilbert Eddy, one of her followers, in 1877. |
 | | Eddy, in order to discourage a cult around her person, reorganised her church from 1889 to 1892 and laid down its principles in various books: thus, to this day, the practice of Christian Science is based on prayer, spirituality and the study of the Bible and of Eddy's books. |
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