Saint Andrew of Crete: Quick Facts


Facts

Born c.660 • Damascus • Syria
Died July 4, 740

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John Mauropous
Byzantine scholar
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St. John of Damascus
Christian saint
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Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos
Byzantine historian
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Nicetas of Remesiana
bishop, theologian, and composer
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Michael Choniates
Byzantine historian
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Agathias
Byzantine historian and poet
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Constantine Manasses
Byzantine chronicler
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Manuel Philes
Byzantine poet
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John Geometres
Byzantine poet, official, and monk
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William Augustus Muhlenberg
American theologian
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Alice Cary
American poet
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas
Italian Christian theologian and philosopher
Guru Nanak
Guru Nanak
founder of Sikhism
St. John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
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Isaac ben Solomon Luria
Jewish mystic
St. Ambrose
St. Ambrose
bishop of Milan
William Cowper, detail of an oil painting by Lemuel Abbott, 1792; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Cowper
British poet
Johannes Ewald, engraving by Johan Frederik Clemens, 1779.
Johannes Ewald
Danish poet
Fanny Crosby
Fanny Crosby
American hymn writer
N.F.S. Grundtvig
N.F.S. Grundtvig
Danish bishop and poet