Mother Serena

Mother Serena, who was born Gladys Miller in New York in 1894, was an astrologer and healer. For over 60 years, at the chapel she created in her Upper West Side brownstone in New York City, she gave a noontime healing service every day but Sunday for the peace and wellbeing of the world, and requested help for a long list of people. Her husband, George Winslow Plummer, headed Societas Rosecruciana, a branch of Rosicrucians that opened to women members in 1916. Dr. Plummer affiliated the group with an esoteric branch of the Orthodox Church and became a bishop in the church. The couple traveled extensively, filling their house with water and earth samples from holy places. After Dr. Plummer died in 1944, Mother Serena married the next head of the church, Stanislaus deWitow; when he died, she became the church’s leader. She corresponded with students from around the world on astrological and spiritual matters. In 1980, she was consecrated as a bishop. Mother Serena died in 1989.