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Born November 14, 1944 (age 81) • England • (Birthday tomorrow)
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
St. John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
Samuel Butler, detail of an oil painting by Charles Gogin, 1896; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Samuel Butler
English author [1835-1902]
Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
Jonathan Sacks
Jonathan Sacks
British rabbi and author
Aelred of Rievaulx, Saint
Saint Aelred of Rievaulx
Cistercian monk
Ronald Knox, pen and ink drawing by P. Evans, c. 1926; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Ronald Knox
British theologian
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Sir Richard Baker
British author
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John Caird
British theologian
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
German religious leader
Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
St. Augustine
Christian bishop and theologian
John Calvin
John Calvin
French theologian
John Bunyan
John Bunyan
English author
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
French abbot
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Tyconius
Christian theologian
The second founder of the Franciscans, St. Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure
Italian theologian
Engraving of Saint Teresa of Avila in a Carmelite habit, gazing upward and holding a crucifix and a scroll.
St. Teresa of Ávila
Spanish mystic
Engraved portrait of John Newton wearing clerical robes and a white neckband, with curled white hair, facing slightly to the right.
John Newton
English clergyman and writer
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Adso of Montier-en-Der
Benedictine monk and abbot
Lo Spagna: Saint Catherine of Siena
St. Catherine of Siena
Italian mystic