268 lives of faith. Showing 61–72.
Doctor of the Church · 14 December
St. John of the Cross was a Spanish Catholic priest, mystic, and Carmelite friar. He is a major figure of the Counter-Reformation in Spain, and he is one of the 38 Doctors of the Church.
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Doctor of the Church · 17 September
Hildegard of Bingen , also known as the "Sibyl of the Rhine", was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath, active during the High Middle Ages as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner of the Catholic…
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Monastic / Hermit · 1 February
Brigid of Kildare or Brigid of Ireland is the patroness saint of Ireland, and one of its three national saints along with Patrick and Columba.
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Priest / Deacon · 9 June
Columba or Colmcille was an Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission in what became Scotland.
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Bishop
Aidan of Lindisfarne was an Irish monk and missionary credited with converting the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity in Northumbria.
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Monastic / Hermit
Benedict Biscop , also known as Biscop Baducing, was an Anglo-Saxon abbot and founder of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory .
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Martyr · 5 August
Oswald was King of Northumbria from 634 until his death, and is venerated as a saint, of whom there was a particular cult in the Middle Ages.
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Martyr · 20 November
Edmund the Martyr was king of East Anglia from about 855 until his death.
United Kingdom · Early origin
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Monastic / Hermit · 12 July
Giovanni Gualberto was an Italian Roman Catholic abbot and the founder of the Vallumbrosan Order.
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Monastic / Hermit · 19 November
Mechtilde of Hackeborn, OSB, also known as Mechtilde of Helfta , was a Saxon Benedictine nun known for her musical talents and spiritual revelations.
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Monastic / Hermit · 21 October
Laura Montoya, in full María Laura de Jesús Montoya Upegui , religious name Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena, was a Colombian Roman Catholic religious sister and the founder of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Virgin Mary and…
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Monastic / Hermit · 28 July
Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception , born as Anna Muttathupadathu, was an Indian Catholic nun and educator.
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