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Anglican saints
- Thomas AquinasIn the year 1244, a young man named Thomas Aquinas sat bound in the stone tower of Monte San Giovanni Campano. He was nineteen years old and dressed in the…
- Nicolaus CopernicusNicolaus Copernicus entered the world on the 19th of February 1473 within the city walls of Toruń. This location sat in Royal Prussia, a region recently…
- John the ApostleZebedee and his sons fished in the Sea of Galilee when Jesus called them to follow him. John was the younger brother of James, another apostle.
- IrenaeusIrenaeus was born in the city of Smyrna, now known as İzmir, Turkey, during the first half of the second century. His birth likely occurred between 120 and…
- OrigenIn 202, a seventeen-year-old named Origen stood in the city of Alexandria and watched his father Leonides be dragged away to execution.
- Augustine of HippoIn 354, Augustine was born in the small North African town of Thagaste. His mother Monica was a devout Christian who prayed constantly for his conversion.
- John CalvinOn the 10th of July 1509, a boy named Jehan Cauvin was born in the town of Noyon within the province of Picardy. His father Gérard Cauvin worked as a…
- Ignatius of LoyolaÍñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola entered the world inside a stone fortress in Azpeitia, Gipuzkoa. His parents belonged to the minor nobility of the Basque region.
- John ChrysostomJohn was born in Antioch, Roman Syria, around the year 347. His father died shortly after his birth, leaving him to be raised by his mother Anthusa.
- Samuel JohnsonOn the 18th of September 1709, a baby named Samuel Johnson did not cry when he was born in Lichfield. His mother Sarah had been forty years old during the…
- Basil of CaesareaBasil of Caesarea was born around 330 into a wealthy Cappadocian Greek family. His father was Basil the Elder and his mother was Emmelia of Caesarea.
- Francis of AssisiGiovanni di Pietro di Bernardone was born in Assisi, a small town in Italy, around 1181. His father, Pietro di Bernardone, was a prosperous silk merchant who…
- Gregory of NyssaGregory of Nyssa was born around 335 in or near the city of Neocaesarea, Pontus. His family belonged to the aristocracy and practiced Christianity openly…
- Gregory of NazianzusGregory of Nazianzus was born to Greek parents in the family estate of Karbala outside the village of Arianzus, near Nazianzus, in southwest Cappadocia.
- John WesleyOn the 9th of February 1709, a fire broke out in the rectory at Epworth. John Wesley was five years old when flames consumed the roof and threatened to…
- Thomas CranmerThomas Cranmer entered the world on the 2nd of July 1489 at Aslockton in Nottinghamshire, England. He was a younger son of Thomas Cranmer and his wife Agnes…
- John of the CrossJuan de Yepes y Álvarez entered the world on the 24th of June 1542 in Fontiveros, a small town near Ávila with only about 2,000 residents.
- Edward the ConfessorEdward the Confessor was born between 1003 and 1005 in Islip, Oxfordshire. He spent a quarter of a century away from England during his childhood exile.
- Frederick DouglassFrederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Talbot County, Maryland.
- Martin LutherOn the 10th of November 1483, a boy named Martin Luther was born in Eisleben. His father Hans worked copper mines and served on the local council.
- Francis XavierFrancis Xavier entered the world on the 7th of April 1506 inside the Castle of Xavier. His father Don Juan de Jasso y Atondo served as president of the Royal…
- Teresa of ÁvilaTeresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada was born on the 28th of March 1515. Her birthplace remains a matter of historical debate between the cities of…
- JeromeEusebius Sophronius Hieronymus was born at Stridon around 342 to 347 AD. He carried Illyrian ancestry through his family line.
- Charles I of EnglandCharles Stuart entered the world at Dunfermline Palace on the 19th of November 1600 as the second son of King James VI of Scotland.
- Thomas MoreThomas More entered the world on the 7th of February 1478 within the City of London. His father Sir John More was a successful lawyer who later became a…
- John WycliffeJohn Wycliffe was born in the village of Hipswell, near Richmond in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England. Records suggest he was born in the mid-1320s…
- Joan of ArcIn the small village of Domrémy, nestled in the Meuse valley of northeast France, a peasant girl named Joan was born around 1412.
- Bartolomé de las CasasBartolomé de las Casas was born in Seville on the 11th of November 1484. For centuries, scholars believed he arrived a decade earlier than that date.
- William TyndaleWilliam Tyndale stood before a dinner party in the early 1520s and declared that if God spared his life, he would ensure the boy who drove the plow knew more…
- John FisherJohn Fisher entered the world around the 19th of October 1469 in Beverley, Yorkshire. His father Robert worked as a prosperous mercer who died in 1477 when…
- Søren KierkegaardSøren Aabye Kierkegaard was born on the 5th of May 1813 in Copenhagen. He entered the world as the youngest of seven children to Michael Pedersen Kierkegaard…
- Florence NightingaleOn the 12th of May 1837, Florence Nightingale stood in the garden at Embley Park. She felt a sudden and overwhelming conviction that God had called her to…
- Sergius of RadonezhIn the village of Varnitsa near Rostov Veliky, a boy named Bartholomew struggled to learn his letters. His parents Kiril and Maria belonged to a boyar family…