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Vacarius

Roman law scholar

Innocent IV

pope

Gregory IX

pope

St. Anselm of Canterbury

archbishop and philosopher

St. Benedict

Italian monk

St. Celestine V

pope

Pius VII

pope

St. Gerard

Venetian monk

St. Romuald of Ravenna

Roman Catholic ascetic

Ambrose Of Camaldoli

Italian translator

Adeodatus II

pope

St. Basil the Great

bishop of Caesarea

Hincmar of Reims

French theologian

St. Raymond of Peñafort

Spanish friar

John IV of Odzun

Armenian Orthodox catholicos

Hugh of Saint-Cher

French cardinal

Guillaume Durand

French scholar

Dionysius Exiguus

canonist

Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite

Greek monk

Matthew Blastares

Greek theologian and scholar