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Born c.354
Died After 418 • Palestine?
Subjects Of Study grace
St. Gregory the Great
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pope
Jansen, engraving by Jean Morin
Cornelius Otto Jansen
Flemish theologian
Caravaggio: The Conversion of St. Paul (second version)
St. Paul the Apostle
Christian Apostle
José de Ribera: Saint Jerome
St. Jerome
Christian scholar
St. Basil the Great
St. Basil the Great
bishop of Caesarea
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St. Cyril of Alexandria
Christian theologian
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Macarius the Egyptian
Egyptian monk
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St. John Cassian
monk
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John of Jerusalem
theologian and bishop
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas
Italian Christian theologian and philosopher
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, shown in dark robes and cap, writing with a quill at a desk, after Quinten Massijs, oil on panel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Bonaventura Berlinghieri: St. Francis and Scenes from His Life
St. Francis of Assisi
Italian saint
Engraving by Lucas Vorsterman after Peter Paul Rubens showing St. Ignatius of Loyola with a halo, hands clasped in prayer before a crucifix and open book.
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish saint
Jan Hus
Jan Hus
Bohemian religious leader
Pope Benedict XVI, wearing white papal robes and a gold cross, raises his right hand in blessing while smiling at a crowd in Rome, Italy.
Benedict XVI
pope
German theologian, scientist, and philosopher St. Albertus Magnus
St. Albertus Magnus
German theologian, scientist, and philosopher
Gregory IX consecrating the chapel of St. Gregory, detail of a fresco, 13th century; in the lower church of Sacro Speco, Subiaco, Italy
Gregory IX
pope
Troeltsch, Ernst
Ernst Troeltsch
German theologian