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Born c.1340
Died March 24, 1396
Subjects Of Study mysticism
Julian of Norwich
Julian of Norwich
English mystic
Rolle, detail from “Religious Poems,” early 15th century; in the British Library (Cotton Ms. Faustina B. VI)
Richard Rolle
British mystic
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Hugh Paulin Cressy
English author and editor
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
French abbot
The second founder of the Franciscans, St. Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure
Italian theologian
Engraving of Saint Teresa of Avila in a Carmelite habit, gazing upward and holding a crucifix and a scroll.
St. Teresa of Ávila
Spanish mystic
Lo Spagna: Saint Catherine of Siena
St. Catherine of Siena
Italian mystic
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Irish poet
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Heinrich Suso
German mystic
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Saint Symeon the New Theologian
Byzantine monk
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Saint John Climacus
Byzantine monk
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Johann Arndt
German theologian
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Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite
Greek monk
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Franciscus Ludovicus Blosius
Benedictine monastic reformer and writer
John Bunyan
John Bunyan
English author
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
St. John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
Samuel Butler, detail of an oil painting by Charles Gogin, 1896; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Samuel Butler
English author [1835-1902]
Engraved portrait of John Newton wearing clerical robes and a white neckband, with curled white hair, facing slightly to the right.
John Newton
English clergyman and writer
Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.
G.K. Chesterton
British author