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Born c.1010 • Hildesheim? • Saxony
Died c.1106 • Meissen
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
Edith Stein
Edith Stein
German nun
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Nicholas Of Cusa
cardinal, scientist, scholar, and philosopher
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Blessed Clemens August, Graf von Galen
German bishop
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Eugen Drewermann
German theologian, psychotherapist, and priest
Eck, Johann
Johann Eck
German theologian
Athanasius Kircher
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit priest and scholar
Görres, oil painting by Joseph Anton Settegast
Joseph von Görres
German writer
St. Bruno the Carthusian and St. Hugh
St. Bruno the Carthusian
German priest
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Adalbert
archbishop of Bremen
Dalberg, Karl Theodor von
Karl Theodor von Dalberg
German archbishop and statesman
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Johannes Cochlaeus
German humanist
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Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim
German theologian
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Jakob Frohschammer
German priest and philosopher
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Matthäus Lang
German statesman and cardinal
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Saint Bruno of Querfurt
Saxon bishop
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Gottschalk Of Orbais
Roman Catholic theologian
Gotthard, Saint
Saint Gotthard
Bavarian archbishop
Faulhaber
Michael von Faulhaber
German cardinal
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Saint Bruno the Great
archbishop of Cologne

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