Curated category
Doctors of the Church
- 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…
- IrenaeusIrenaeus was a Greek bishop who, around the year 180, sat down to dismantle a rival vision of Christianity that promised secret wisdom to a chosen few.
- Augustine of HippoAugustine of Hippo was born on the 13th of November 354 in Thagaste, a small town in Roman North Africa that today is Souk Ahras, Algeria.
- John ChrysostomJohn Chrysostom collapsed and died at Comana Pontica on the 14th of September 407, on a road he never chose to walk. He was being marched toward Pitiunt, a…
- Basil of CaesareaBasil of Caesarea once told a prefect of the emperor, "Perhaps you have never yet had to deal with a bishop." The prefect, a man named Modestus, had been…
- Gregory of NyssaGregory of Nyssa wrote something no one in the ancient world had written before him: a direct, unequivocal argument that slavery itself was sinful.
- Gregory of NazianzusGregory of Nazianzus once compared himself to the Prophet Jonah, begging to be thrown overboard. "Seize me and throw me," he told a council of 150 bishops in…
- John of the CrossJohn of the Cross was born Juan de Yepes y Álvarez on the 24th of June 1542, in Fontiveros, a small Castilian town of around 2,000 people, into a family of…
- 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…
- JeromeJerome, the early Christian priest and scholar also known as Saint Jerome, once described crawling through the catacombs beneath Rome.