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Born c.1350 • Valencia • Spain
Died April 5, 1419 • Vannes • France
Fra Bartolomeo: portrait of Girolamo Savonarola
Girolamo Savonarola
Italian preacher
St. Dominic
St. Dominic
Spanish priest
Giovanni di Balduccio: Saint Peter Martyr and Three Donors
St. Peter Martyr
Italian preacher
Jesus Christ
Jesus
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
German religious leader
John Bunyan, pencil drawing on vellum by Robert White; in the British Museum
John Bunyan
English author
John Knox, engraving from Icones, by T. Beza, 1580.
John Knox
Scottish religious leader
Origen
Christian theologian
Huldrych Zwingli
Huldrych Zwingli
Swiss religious leader
Karl Barth
Karl Barth
Swiss theologian
Geertgen tot Sint Jans: John the Baptist in the Wilderness
St. John the Baptist
Jewish prophet and Christian saint
Bossuet, detail of an oil painting by Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1698; in the Uffizi, Florence
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
French bishop
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher
German theologian
Billy Graham
Billy Graham
American evangelist
St. John Chrysostom
St. John Chrysostom
archbishop of Constantinople
George Fox
George Fox
English religious leader
The patron saint of Portugal; Padua, Italy; and lost things
St. Anthony of Padua
Portuguese friar
Aimee Semple McPherson
Aimee Semple McPherson
American religious leader
al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
Muslim scholar
Vieira, António
António Vieira
Portuguese author and diplomat