- Augustine Of Hippo
Aurelius Augustinus, Augustine of Hippo, or Saint Augustine (November 13, 354 - August 28, 430) was one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity, there considered to be one of the church fathers. He framed the concepts of original sin and just war. In Roman Catholicism and the Anglican Communion, he is a saint and pre-eminent Doctor of the Church, and the patron of the Augustinian religious order. - Ian Paisley
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley MP MLA (born 6 April 1926) is the current First Minister of Northern Ireland. Styled as "The Reverend", "Right Honourable" or as "Doctor", depending upon his current role and location, Paisley is a veteran politician and church leader in Northern Ireland. As the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the largest single grouping in the 2007 elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, … - Jack Chick
Jack Thomas Chick (born April 13, 1924) of Chick Publications is a U.S. comic book artist and publisher. Chick is known for his controversial comic-style tracts, known as "Chick Tracts", as well as for larger comic books for the purpose of Christian evangelism from a fundamentalist point of view. Chick is an Independent Baptist, a premillennial dispensationalist, follower of the King-James-Only Movement, and an opponent of Roman Catholicism. - Mary Tudor
Mary I (18 February, 1516 - 17 November, 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 6 July1553 (de facto) or 19 July 1553 (de jure) until her death on 17 November, 1558. Mary, the fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, after the uncrowned Jane Grey and before Elizabeth I, is remembered for briefly returning England to Roman Catholicism. - John Henry Cardinal Newman
The Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman, JHCN. (February 21 1801 - August 11 1890) was an English convert to Roman Catholicism, later made a cardinal, and in 1991 proclaimed 'Venerable'. In early life he was a major figure in the Oxford Movement to bring the Church of England back to its Catholic roots. Eventually his studies in history persuaded him to become a Roman Catholic. Both before and after his conversion he wrote a number of influential books, … - Loraine Boettner
Loraine Boettner (1901-03-07 to 1990-01-03) was an American theologian and author. Boettner was born in Linden, Missouri. He received a Th.B. (1928) and Th.M. (1929) from Princeton Theological Seminary, and he received the honorary degrees of Doctor of Divinity (1933) and Doctor of Letters (1957). He was a member of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. For eight years he taught Bible at Pikeville College in Kentucky, … - George Allen
George Allen (December 17, 1808-May 28, 1876) was a noted college professor and clergyman. He was born in Milton, Vermont in 1808. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1827, and became a professor of languages at that school the following year. He left that position in 1830. The following year, he was admitted to the Vermont bar and married Mary Hancock Withington, with whom he would have four children. He was ordained a minister in the Episcopal Church in 1834. - Charles I of England
Charles I was King of England, King of Scotland and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles famously engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England. As he was an advocate of the Divine Right of Kings, many in England feared that he was attempting to gain absolute power. There was widespread opposition to many of his actions, especially the levying of taxes without Parliament's consent. - Alberto Rivera
Alberto Magno Romero Rivera (1935 - 1997) was an anti-Catholic religious activist who was the source of many of fundamentalist Christian author Jack Chick's stories about the Vatican. Rivera was born in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain, in 1935 and died on June 20, 1997 of colorectal cancer in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, in the United States. Chick promised to promote Alberto's claims even after he died. - Clovis I
Clovis I (c. 466 - 27 November 511) was the first King of the Franks to unite all the Frankish tribes under one ruler. He succeeded his father Childeric I in 481 as King of the Salian Franks, one of the Frankish tribes, who were then occupying the area west of the lower Rhine, with their centre around Tournai and Cambrai along the modern frontier between France and Belgium, in an area known as Toxandria. - Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Former President of Haiti (1991),(1994-1996) and (2001-2004), ousted in two coups d'état (1991,2004). The American government ruled that the years of military government between 1991 and 1994 would count as part of his term, forcing him to step down after only two years as he was not permitted to run for a second consecutive term. His second term was also interrupted by a putsch and he was forced into exile by the American military. When he could not run, René Préval was elected... - John Gray
John Gray was an English poet whose works include "Silverpoints", "The Long Road" and "Park: A Fantastic Story". Born in the working-class district of Bethnal Green, London, he is known today mostly as an aesthetic poet of the 1890s and as a friend of Ernest Dowson, Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde. He was also a talented translator, bringing works by the French Symbolists Mallarmé, Verlaine, Laforgue and Rimbaud into English, often for the first time. - Elizabeth Ann Seton
St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was the first native-born United States citizen to be canonized. - Mary Of Modena
Mary of Modena (5 October 1658 - 7 May 1718) was the queen consort of King James II of England and VII of Scotland. Daughter of Alfonso IV d'Este, Duke of Modena and Laura Martinozzi (niece of Jules Cardinal Mazarin), she was born in Modena and christened Maria Beatrice Eleanor Anna Margherita Isabella d'Este. She had a strict Roman Catholic upbringing, and thought briefly of becoming an abbess in an order of nuns founded by her mother. - Kimberly Hahn
Kimberly Hahn (born in 1957) is a Catholic apologist and author. She is the eldest child of Jerry and Patricia Kirk, and is married to apologist and author Scott Hahn. Kimberly was born into a Presbyterian family; her father was a minister. She studied Communication Arts at Grove City College in Pennsylvania, graduating in 1979. She married fellow student Scott Hahn on 18 August that year. - Thomas Tallis
Thomas Tallis (circa 1505-23 November 1585) was an English composer. Tallis flourished as a church musician during the often stormy 16th century in England. He occupies a primary place in anthologies of English church music, and is considered among the best of its earliest composers. - Ralph Woodrow
Ralph Woodrow is an Evangelical Christian Minister, speaker and author of 14 books. Woodrow formerly supported the thesis of the 19th century churchman Alexander Hislop that Roman Catholicism is a syncretistic pagan religion in his book "Babylon Mystery Religion" and gained a certain notoriety when he changed his view and pulled the work from circulation. His new viewpoint is documented in "The Babylon Connection". - Francis J. Beckwith
Francis J. Beckwith (1960-) is an American Christian philosopher. He has a graduate degree in law, and is well-known in Evangelical Protestant Christianity as a scholar, debater, and lecturer. Beckwith is known for his advocacy in the areas of social ethics, legal philosophy, philosophy of religion, intelligent design and the Christian countercult movement. - Josemaría Escrivá
Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer (also known as Jose María or Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás, born José María Mariano Escriba Albás) was a Spanish Catholic priest and founder of the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, popularly, "Opus Dei". He was canonized in a controversial process by Pope John Paul II, … - John Mason Neale
John Mason Neale (January 24, 1818 - August 6, 1866), English divine and scholar, was born in London, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Here he was affected by the Oxford Movement, and helped to found the Cambridge Camden Society (afterwards known as the Ecclesiological Society). Though he took orders in 1841, ill-health prevented his settling in England until 1846, when he became warden of Sackville College, an alms-house at East Grinstead, … - Frederick Copleston
Fr. Frederick Charles Copleston, S.J. was a Jesuit priest and writer on philosophy. Copleston's family was Anglican (his uncle was a bishop of Calcutta), but he converted to Roman Catholicism while a pupil at Marlborough College, and became a Jesuit in 1930. He studied and later lectured at Heythrop College and, seeing the poor standard of philosophical teaching in seminaries, he was author of an influential nine-volume "History of Philosophy" (1946-75), … - Alfred Loisy
Alfred Firmin Loisy (28 February 1857 - 1 June 1940) was a French Roman Catholic priest, professor and theologian who became the intellectual standard bearer for Biblical Modernism in the Roman Catholic Church. He was a critic of traditional views of the biblical accounts of creation, and argued that biblical criticism could be applied to interpreting scripture. His theological positions brought him into conflict with the leading Catholics of his era, … - Joyce Kilmer
Alfred Joyce Kilmer (6 December 1886 - 30 July 1918) was an American journalist, poet, literary critic, lecturer and editor. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his religious faith, Kilmer is remembered most for a poem entitled "Trees" (1913) which was published in the collection "Trees and Other Poems" in 1914. - Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 11, and numbered Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré among his teachers. He was appointed organist at the church of La Trinité in Paris in 1931, a post he held until his death. On the fall of France in 1940 Messiaen was made a prisoner of war, … - Graham Leonard
Graham Douglas Leonard, KCVO (born May 8th, 1921), is a British cleric. He was formerly a bishop of the Church of England (Anglican) but became a Roman Catholic after his retirement. Leonard had three episcopal positions in the Church of England, firstly as the Suffragan Bishop of Willesden in London and later as the Bishop of Truro (1973 to 1981) and the Bishop of London (1981 to 1991). During this last period he was also Dean of the Chapel Royal, a Royal Household office, … - Frederick Henry
Frederick Henry (born April 11, 1943) is the seventh and current Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Calgary, in the province of Alberta, Canada. Bishop Henry is known as an outspoken critic of various trends in government, whether the rather libertarian policies of Alberta's Conservatives which often seem to leave the less fortunate behind, … - Timothy Dolan
Timothy Michael Dolan (born February 6, 1950 in St. Louis, Missouri) is the tenth Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. - Sister Nirmala
Sister Nirmala (born 1934) succeeded Mother Teresa as Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity in March 1997. She was born Nirmala Joshi into a family of Brahmins in 1934 in Ranchi (then in Bihar and now the capital of the Indian State of Jharkhand). Her parents were high-caste Hindu Brahmins from Nepal. Her father was devout Hindu Indian Army officer originally from Nepal. - Thomas Morton
Thomas Morton (1564-1659), was an English churchman, bishop of several dioceses. He was born at York, and was educated at York and Halifax grammar schools and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow on taking his degree. He was ordained in 1592, and held the office of university lecturer in logic till in 1598 he obtained the living of Long Marston, Yorkshire. He gained a considerable reputation as a Protestant controversialist, … - David du Plessis
David Johannes du Plessis (February 7, 1905 - January 31, 1987) was a South African-born Pentecostal minister, and is considered one of the main founders of the charismatic movement, in which the Pentecostal experience spread to non-Pentecostal churches worldwide. He was converted to evangelical Christianity at 16, and received what Pentecostals call the Baptism of the Holy Spirit at the age of 18, a spiritual experience accompanied by speaking in tongues. - William Wycherley
William Wycherley was an English dramatist of the Restoration period. He was born at Clive, near Shrewsbury, where his family was settled on a moderate estate of about £600 a year. Like Vanbrugh, Wycherley spent his early years in France, where he was sent, at fifteen, to be educated in the heart of the "precious" circle on the banks of the Charente. Wycherley's friend, Major Pack, says that he "improved, with the greatest refinements", … - Kenelm Digby
Sir Kenelm Digby (July 11 1603 - June 11 1665) was born at Gayhurst, Buckinghamshire. He was of gentry stock, but his family's adherence to Roman Catholicism coloured his career. His father, Sir Everard, was executed in 1606 for his part in the Gunpowder Plot. - Henry Compton
Henry Compton, English bishop, was the sixth and youngest son of the second earl of Northampton. He was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford, and then travelled in Europe. After the restoration of Charles II he became cornet in a regiment of horse, but soon quit the army for the church. After a further period of study at Cambridge and again at Oxford, he held various livings. He was made Bishop of Oxford in 1674, … - Richard Montagu
Richard Montagu (or Mountague, English divine, was born at Dorney, Buckinghamshire and educated at Eton and Cambridge. In 1613, he was elected fellow of Eton and became rector of Stanford Rivers, Essex. He was appointed to the deanery of Hereford in 1616, but exchanged it next year for a canonry of Windsor, which he held with the rectory of Petworth, Sussex. He was also chaplain to James I. Like William Laud, … - Paul Wilkes
Paul Wilkes (b. 1938) is an American writer and filmmaker who is best known for his focus on religion, especially Roman Catholicism and the monastic life. He was born the youngest of seven children to immigrant parents, both Slovaks, in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended Cathedral Latin High School. At Marquette University he received his B.A. in 1960. He then entered the U.S. Navy as a communications officer, serving from 1961 to 1964. - Katharine Drexel
Katharine Marie Drexel is a Roman Catholic Saint. - Edmund Bonner
Edmund Bonner (c. 1500 - September 5, 1569), Bishop of London, was an English bishop. Initially an instrumental figure in the schism of Henry VIII from Rome, he was antagonized by the Protestant reforms introduced by Somerset and reconciled himself to Roman Catholicism. He became notorious as "Bloody Bonner" for his role in the persecution of heretics under the Catholic government of Mary I of England, … - Austen Ivereigh
Austen Ivereigh is a Catholic journalist and is currently co-ordinator of the Citizen Organising Foundation's "Strangers into Citizens" campaign. - C. John McCloskey
C. John McCloskey, III is a Catholic priest and member of Opus Dei. He is the former director of the Catholic Information Center of the Archdiocese of Washington. He worked on Wall Street - Citibank and Merrill Lynch - for some years before becoming a priest, being ordained in 1981 by Roger Cardinal Etchegaray. Fr. McCloskey is perhaps best-known for having helped many people convert to Catholicism, including Sam Brownback, Robert Bork, Lawrence Kudlow, and Dr. - Binnie Barnes
Gittel Enoyce "Binnie" Barnes, later known as Gertrude Maude Barnes was a British American actress. She born in Islington to a Jewish father and an Italian mother, and was raised Jewish. She began her acting career in films in 1923 and continued until 1973 (her final role was in the comedy "40 Carats"). Her most famous film was probably "The Private Life of Henry VIII", which starred Charles Laughton in the title role, …
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