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Born England? • Scotland?
Died March 10, 1173 • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study mysticism
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
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Joachim Of Fiore
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Gerson, engraving
Jean de Gerson
French theologian
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Philo Judaeus
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Jewish philosopher
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Swedish philosopher
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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The second founder of the Franciscans, St. Bonaventure
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St. Gregory of Nyssa
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Macarius the Egyptian
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Kaspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig
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Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī
Indian mystic and theologian
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Isaac Of Stella
English philosopher and theologian
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William of Saint-Thierry
French philosopher
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Sebastian Franck
German theologian
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Diadochus Of Photice
theologian
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Evagrius Ponticus
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