Later known as Sweet Angel, Mrs. S. A. Divine or Mother Divine, was the symbolic maintainer of the International Peace Mission, a religious movement started by Father Divine (c.1876-1965), an African American, who claimed to be God. A Vancouver, Canadian convert, she first was drawn to the movement while still in high school. Moving to the then-headquarters of the movement in PA; she became one of Father Divine's personal secretaries. She proposed to him one day in the office by saying, "I want to marry you because I know you are God." She became his second wife in a secret wedding on April 29, 1946. Ritchings was 21, and Father Divine about 65.

1953, she and her husband lived at Woodmont manor home and estate in PA, which doubled as a Peace Mission headquarters and church. Father Divine died in 1965. Mother Divine fought an attempt by Jim Jones, the head of Peoples Temple, to take over the movement in 1971. Jones based some of his doctrines on the International Peace Mission movement, and claimed to be the reincarnation of Father Divine. Converts to the Peoples Temple wrote Mother Divine trying to convince her that Jones was Father Divine until the mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana in 1978.  

As of 2015 there were a total of 19 members remaining, all of whom live together on the Woodmont estate near PA. Mother Divine died on March 4, 2017 at 91. [cited Wikipedia]