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People celebrated in the Lutheran liturgical calendar
- RembrandtRembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn entered the world on the 15th of July 1606 in Leiden, a city within the Dutch Republic. His father worked as a miller while…
- MichelangeloMichelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni arrived in the world on the 6th of March 1475 within the small town of Caprese.
- 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…
- Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach entered the world on the 21st of March 1685 in Eisenach, a town within the duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.
- NoahThe Hebrew Bible places Noah as the tenth and final antediluvian patriarch in Genesis chapter 5. His father Lamech lived to be 182 years old when Noah was…
- OrigenIn 202, a seventeen-year-old named Origen stood in the city of Alexandria and watched his father Leonides be dragged away to execution.
- 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…
- Leonhard EulerLeonhard Euler was born in Basel on the 15th of April 1707 to Paul III Euler and Marguerite Brucker. His father served as a pastor for the Reformed Church…
- 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…
- 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…
- Albrecht DürerAlbrecht Dürer was born on the 21st of May 1471 in Nuremberg, Germany. His father, Albrecht Dürer the Elder, had moved from Hungary to become a successful…
- 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…
- MetatronScholars have argued over the name Metatron for more than a century. Philip Alexander suggests the word might be a magical term found in Hekhalot literature…
- 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…