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Great Catholic Personalities |
Abelard, Pierre (or Peter) (1079-1142) [French monk, dialectician, philosopher, and theologian]
Alcuin (c.735-804) [Anglo-Saxon monk, theologian, scholar, and educator]
Alphonsus de Liguori (1696-1787) [Italian bishop, Doctor of the Church, writer, founder of the Redemptorist Order, and saint]
Ambrose of Milan (339-397 A.D.) [Italian bishop, Doctor of the Church, Church Father, and saint]
Andre, Brother (1845-1932) [Canadian Holy Cross Brother, healer of the sick, and Blessed]
Andrew Kim (or Andrew Kim Taegon, or Andrew Kim Dae Kun) ( -1846) [First Korean priest, martyr, and saint]
Angelico, Fra (c.1400-1455) [Florentine Dominican monk, Renaissance painter, and Blessed]
Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) [ Lombardy-born archbishop, Doctor of the Church & saint]
Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) [Portugal-born Franciscan friar, preacher, thaumaturgist, and saint]
Augustine (or Aurelius Augustinus) of Hippo (354-430 A.D.) [North African convert, bishop, philosopher, writer, Doctor of the Church, Church Father, and saint]
Athanasius (c.296-373) [Bishop of Alexandria (Egypt), confessor, theologian, writer, and saint]
Bacon, Roger (1214-1294) [English layman, philosopher and scientist]
Basil the Great (c.329-379) [Cappadocia-born Bishop, Doctor of the Church, Church Father, and saint]
Becket, Thomas (or Thomas a Becket) (c.1118-1170) [English archbishop of Canterbury and saint)
Bede, Venerable (c.672-737) [Anglo-Saxon monk, historian, Doctor of the Church, and saint]
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) [German layman and composer]
Bellarmine, Robert Francis Romulus (1542-1621) [Italian Jesuit theologian, cardinal, Doctor of the Church, and saint]
Belloc, [Joseph-Pierre] Hilaire (1870-1953) [English layman, Member of Parliament and writer]
Benedict of Nursia (c.480-c.547) [Italian monk, founder of the Benedictine Order, Father of Western Monasticism, and saint]
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) [French Cistercian monk, Doctor of the Church, and saint]
Bernardine (or Bernardino) of Siena (1380-1444) (Italian Franciscan friar, preacher, and saint)
Bonaventure (c.1221-1274) [Italian Franciscan friar, Doctor of the Church ("Seraphic Doctor"), and saint]
Bosco, John (or "Don Bosco") (1815-1888) [Italian priest, founder of the Salesian Order, publisher, and saint]
Botticelli, Sandro (or Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) (c.1444-1510) [Florentine layman and painter]
Brandsma, Titus (1881-1942) [Dutch anti-Nazi priest, writer, martyr, and Blessed]
Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) [Italian Dominican nun, mystic, Doctor of the Church and saint]
Charlemagne (in French, Charles the Great) (c.742-814) [Frankish king, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire]
Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916) [French hermit, servant of the poor, and Blessed]
Chaucer, Geoffrey (c.1342-1400) [English layman and poet]
Chavez, Cesar Estrada (1927-1993) [American layman and union organizer of farm labors]
Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith) (1874-1936) [English layman, journalist and author]
Clare of Assissi (c.1193-1253) [Italian Franciscan monk, foundress of the Poor Clares Order, and saint]
Clark, Mary Higgins (1929 - ) [American laywoman and mystery and suspense writer]
Constantine the Great (c.288-337) [Roman Emperor to grant Christians equality and freedom and defender of the Catholic faith]
Copernicus, Nicolaus ( or Niclas Kopernik) (1473-1543) [Polish priest and astronomer]
Damien of Molokai ( or Joseph de Veuster) (1840-1889) [Belgian Picpus missionary, servant of lepers, and Blessed]
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) [Italian layman, poet and spiritual writer]
Descartes, Rene (1596-1650) [French layman, mathematician, scientist, and philosopher]
Dominic ( or Domingo de Guzman) (c.1170-1221) [Spain-born monk, founder of the Dominican Order of Friars and saint)
Duff, Frank (1889(?)-1980) [Irish civil servant, lay apostle, and cofounder of the Legion of Mary]
Endo, Shusako (1923-1996) [Japanese layman and novelist]
Escriva, Josemaria (1902-1975) [Spanish priest, writer, founder of the Opus Dei, and Blessed]
Fisher, John (1469-1535) [English chancellor of Cambridge University, cardinal and saint]
Flanagan, Edward Joseph (1886-1948) [American priest, humanitarian, and founder of the Boys' Town]
Francis de Sales (1567-1622) [French Catholic bishop of Geneva, writer, and saint]
Francis of Assissi (c.1182-1226) [Italian friar, founder of the Franciscan Order, and saint]
Gama, Vasco da (c.1469-1524) [Portuguese layman, navigator and explorer]
Goretti, Maria (1890-1902) [Italian virgin, martyr, and saint]
Greene, Graham (1904-1991) [English layman and novelist]
Gregory of Nazianzus ( or Gregory Nazianzen) (c.325-389) [Cappadocian bishop, Father of the Church, Doctor of the Church, and saint]
Gregory the Great (or Pope Gregory I) (c.540-604) [Roman pope and Church Father]
Haring, Bernard (1912-1998) [German Redemptorist priest, moral theologian, speaker, and writer]
Hesburgh, Theodore Martin (1917- ) [American Holy Cross priest, university president, and champion of racial justice]
Hildegard von Bingen (or Hildegard of Bingen) (1098-1179) [German Benedictine abbess, visionary, mystic, poet, musician, naturalist, healer, theologian, and saint]
Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) [Spanish soldier, priest, mystic, and founder of the Jesuit Order]
Japanese Martyrs (26 Martyrs of Nagasaki, Japan)
Jaricot, Pauline-Marie (1799-1862) [French lay woman and founder of the Society of the Propagation of Faith and the Universal Living Rosary, and Venerable]
Jerome (or Eusebius Hieronymus) (c.347-420) [Dalmatian priest, Bible translator, Church Father, Doctor of the Church, and saint]
Joan of Arc (1412-1431) [French teenager, visionary, war heroine, and saint]
Jogues, Isaac (1607-1646) [French-born Jesuit missionary in North America and saint]
John XXIII (1881-1963) [Italian pope and pioneer of Church renewal and Christian unity]
John of the Cross (1542-1519) [Spanish priest, Doctor of the Church, poet, mystic, and saint]
John Paul II (1920- ) [Polish-born pope, theologian, and writer]
Julian of Norwich (1342-c.1416) [English female mystic, writer, and Blessed]
Kafka, Restituta (1894-1943) [Austrian Franciscan Sisters of Charity nun, nurse, martyr, and Blessed]
Kolbe, Maximilian (1894-1941) [Polish friar, missionary, writer, and saint]
Leo the Great (or Pope Leo I) (440-461) [Pope, Doctor of the Church, and saint]
Louis of Granada (1504-1588) [Spanish Dominican preacher, theologican, and ascetical writer]
Lubich, Chiara (1920- ) [Italian lay woman and founder of the Focolare Movement]
MacKillop, Mary (1842-1909) [Australian nun, pioneer of Catholic schools, founder of a nuns' order, and Blessed]
Magellan, Ferdinand (1480-1521) [Portuguese layman, navigator and explorer]
Manning, Henry Edward (1808-1892) [English cardinal, scholar, and writer]
Marconi, Guglielmo (1878-1937) [Italian layman, physicist and inventor]
Marquette, Jacques (1636-1695) [French-born Jesuit missionary to North America, explorer, and discoverer of the Mississippi River]
Martin de Porres (1579-1639) [Peruvian Dominican Lay Brother and saint]
Maurin, Peter (1877-1949) [American layman, and Co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement]
Mazenod, Charles Joseph Eugene de (1782-1861) [French bishop, founder of the Oblates of the Mary Immaculete order, and saint]
Mechthild (or Mechtild) of Magdeburg (c.1212-1280) [German nun, mystic, writer, and saint]
Mendel, Gregor Johann (1822-1882) [Austrian Augustinian monk, naturalist, and discoverer of the Laws of Heredity]
Merton, Thomas (1915-1968) [American Trappist monk, writer, pacifist, and ecumenist]
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) [Italian layman, painter, sculptor, architect, and poet]
Mindszenty, Joseph (1892-1975) [Hungarian cardinal and a strong opponent of atheistic communist regime]
More, Thomas (c.1478-1535) [English layman, statesman, scholar, and saint]
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) [Austrian layman, and composer]
Newman, John Henry (1801-1890) [English scholar, writer, cardinal, and Venerable]
O'Connor, (Mary) Flannery (1925-1964) [American laywoman, and novelist]
Ozanam, Antoine-Frederick (1813-1853) [French layman, lawyer, scholar, apologist, co-founder of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, and Blessed]
Patrick (c.387-c.493) [England-born missionary to Ireland, bishop, and saint]
Pio, Padre (1887-1968) [Italian priest, stigmatist, and miracle worker]
Polo, Marco (1251-1324) [Italian traveller]
Pro, Miguel (1891-1927) [Mexican Jesuit priest, martyr, and Blessed]
Rahner, Karl (1904-1984) [German Jesuit priest, theologian and writer]
Raphael (or Raffaello Sanzio) (1443-1520) [Italian layman, and Renaissance painter]
Ricci, Matteo (1552-1610) [Italian Jesuit priest, missionary and scientist]
Romero, Oscar Arnulfo (1917-1980) [El Salvadoran archbishop, advocate of social justice, and martyr]
Rose of Lima (1586-1617) [Peru-born virgin, member of the Third Order of St. Dominic, saint, and patroness of America and the Philippines)
Ruiz, Lorenzo (c.1900-1637) [Filipino lay missionary to Japan, martyr, and saint]
Ruysbroeck, Jan van (or John Ruysbroeck) (or John of Ruysbroeck) (1293-1381) [Flemish Augustinian priest and mystical writer]
Savio, Dominic (1842-1857) [Italian teenager saint]
Schindler, Oskar (or Osker, or Oscar) (1908-1974) [German layman and industrialist who saved hundreds of Jews from Nazi extermination]
Serra, Junipero (1713-1784) [Spanish Franciscan missionary to Mexico and California, founder of California Missions, and Blessed]
Sheen, Fulton J. (1895-1979) [American archbishop, writer, speaker, and radio and television evangelist]
Talbot, Matt (1856-1925) [Irish layman, recovered alcoholic, and Venerable]
Tansi, Cyprian Michael Iwene (1903-1964) (Nigerian Cistercian monk and Blessed)
Tekakwitha, Kateri (1656-1680) [American Mohawk Indian convert, lay woman, and Blessed]
Teresa, Mother (1910-1997) [Missionary of Albanian descent and founder of the Missionaries of Charity Order]
Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897) [French Carmelite nun, writer, and saint]
Thomas a Kempis (or Thomas Hemerken) (c.1379-1471) [Prussia-born Augustinian monk and spiritual writer]
Tompkins, Jimmy (1870-1953) [Canadian priest, friend of the poor, and pioneer of adult education]
Ugandan Martyrs (1885-1887) [Laypersons]
Urs von Balthasar, Hans (1905-1988): [Swiss Jesuit priest, theologian, and writer]
Vanier, Jean (1928- ) [Canadian layman, Naval officer, philosopher, teacher, and founder of L'Arche Community]
Vaz, Joseph (1651-1711) [India-born missionary to Sri Lanka, martyr, and Blessed]
Vianney, Jean-Baptiste-Marie (1786-1869) [French priest, confessor , and saint]
Vincent de Paul (1581-1660) [French priest, founder of the Vincentian Order, preacher, helper of the poor, and saint]
Xavier, Francis (1506-1552) [French Jesuit missionary to India, Malaysia, and Japan]
