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Born	c.1290
Died	August 26, 1349 • London • England

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cardinal, scientist, scholar, and philosopher

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St. John Henry Newman

British theologian

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John Wycliffe

English theologian

William of Ockham

William of Ockham

English philosopher

St. Edmund

St. Edmund of Abingdon

archbishop of Canterbury

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Nicholas Of Hereford

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William George Ward, engraving

William George Ward

British theologian

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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John Sergeant

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Frederick William Faber, engraving by Joseph Brown

Frederick William Faber

British theologian

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Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

English physicist and mathematician

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

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

British logician and philosopher

St. Gregory the Great

St. Gregory the Great

pope

Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead

British mathematician and philosopher

French philosopher Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

French philosopher and scientist

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.

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Jan Hus

Jan Hus

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