Curated category
Angelic visionaries
- JesusJesus was a 1st-century Jewish preacher in the Roman province of Judaea, and he is the central figure of the world's largest religion.
- MosesMoses is the Hebrew prophet credited with leading an entire people out of slavery, receiving the foundational laws of three world religions, and dying at the…
- Thomas AquinasThomas Aquinas was the youngest of nine children, and his family had a plan for him. His brothers would be soldiers. He would follow his uncle Sinibald…
- John the ApostleJohn the Apostle spent the last moments before Jesus's arrest walking through the Garden of Gethsemane, one of only three men Jesus chose to witness his…
- Mary, mother of JesusMary of Nazareth, a first-century Jewish woman, became the most venerated figure in the history of Christianity. Her name in the original Aramaic was Maryam…
- Constantine the GreatConstantine the Great was born on the 27th of February 272 in Naissus, a provincial city in what is now Serbia, to a Roman army officer and a Greek woman of…
- JacobJacob was born grasping the heel of his older twin brother Esau, and that grip became his name. In Hebrew, Yaʿaqōv ties to ʿaqev, the word for heel.
- IsaiahIsaiah was an 8th-century BC Israelite prophet, and his name carries a meaning: "Yahweh is salvation." He is also known as Isaias or Esaias, and the Book of…
- William BlakeWilliam Blake spent one of his last shillings on a pencil so he could keep sketching. He was near death, working feverishly on illustrations for Dante's…
- Francis of AssisiGiovanni di Pietro di Bernardone was a young man who loved fine clothes, spent money lavishly, and delighted in the songs of troubadours.
- MuhammadMuhammad was born in Mecca around the year 570, into the Banu Hashim clan of the Quraysh tribe. His father died before he was born.
- Teresa of ÁvilaTeresa of Ávila was born Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada on the 28th of March 1515, and she died either just before midnight on the 4th of October…
- Joan of ArcJoan of Arc was about nineteen when she was tied to a tall plastered pillar in Rouen's Old Marketplace and burned alive on the 30th of May 1431.
- John DeeJohn Dee was born in the Tower Ward of London on the 13th of July 1527. His father Rowland Dee served as a mercer and courtier to Henry VIII.
- Sergius of RadonezhSergius of Radonezh was baptized Bartholomew, a boyar's son from a village near Rostov Veliky, and he died on the 25th of September 1392 as the most…