| |  | Saint Francis of Assisi was a Roman Catholic friar and the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans. |  | Saint John of the Cross (June 24, 1542 - December 14, 1591) was a major figure in the Catholic Reformation, a Spanish mystic and Carmelite friar... |  | Martin Luther was a German monk, theologian, and church reformer. Luther's theology challenged the authority of the papacy by emphasizing the Bible... |  | Julian of Norwich is considered to be one of the greatest English mystics. Little is known of her life aside from her writings. Even her name is... |  | Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, the Apostle of Northumbria, was the founder and first bishop of the monastery on the island of Lindisfarne in England.... |  | John Wesley was an eighteenth-century Anglican minister and Christian theologian who was an early leader in the Methodist movement. Methodism had... |  | Saint Columba (7 December 521 - 9 June 597) is sometimes referred to as Columba of Iona, or, in Old Irish, as Colm Cille or Columcille (meaning... |  | Saint Birgitta, also known as Santa Brigida or St. Bridgid of Sweden and "Birgitta of Vadstena" (1303 - July 23, 1373), was a mystic and saint, and... |  | Saint Clare of Assisi, born Chiara Offreduccio (July 16, 1194 - August 11, 1253) was an Italian saint, one of the first followers of Francis of... |  | John Calvin (July 10, 1509 - May 27, 1564) was a French Protestant theologian during the Protestant Reformation and was a central developer of the... | |
