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Albertus Magnus

13th century German Dominican friar and saint

Aloysius Gonzaga

16th-century Italian Jesuit seminarian and saint

Alphonsus Liguori

Italian Catholic bishop (1696–1787)

Anselm of Canterbury

11th and 12th-century Archbishop of Canterbury, theologian, and saint

Anthony of Padua

Franciscan friar and Doctor of the Church

Bernard of Clairvaux

Burgundian saint, abbot and theologian (1090-1153)

Founder of the Knights Hospitaller

Italian theologian (1221–1274)

Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

Roman Catholic bishop

Catherine of Siena

Italian Dominican saint (1347–1380)

Charles Coughlin

Canadian-American Catholic priest (1891–1979)

Charles Reynolds (cleric)

Irish Catholic cleric

Cornelius Jansen

Bishop and theologian (1585-1638)

American journalist, anarchist social activist, Catholic convert and Servant of God

16th-century English Jesuit priest, martyr and saint

Elizabeth Ann Seton

American Roman Catholic educator and saint (1774–1821)

Belgian Roman Catholic priest and saint

Faustina Kowalska

Nun and saint from Poland

Frances Xavier Cabrini

Italian-American Roman Catholic nun and saint

Francis de Sales

Bishop of Geneva

Francis of Assisi

Italian Catholic saint (c. 1181–1226)

Spanish Catholic saint and missionary (1506–1552)

Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros

Catholic cardinal (1436-1517)

François Fénelon

French archbishop, theologian and writer (1651–1715)

Fulton J. Sheen

American catholic bishop and television presenter

Australian Catholic cardinal (1941–2023)

Heinrich Kramer

German churchman and inquisitor

Ignatius of Loyola

16th-century Catholic priest, theologian and saint; founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)

Jacobus de Voragine

Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa (c.1230-1298)

Jacques Maritain

French philosopher

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

French bishop and theologian

Czech theologian and philosopher

German theologian

German Dominican friar and seller of indulgences

John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore)

First Roman Catholic bishop and archbishop in the United States

John Henry Newman

English cleric and cardinal

Spanish priest and Doctor of the Church

John of the Cross

Spanish Catholic priest, friar, mystic, and saint

English theologian

Junípero Serra

Christian missionary

11th-century Archbishop of Canterbury, jurist and theologian

Lawrence of Brindisi

Roman Catholic priest and a theologian

Australian foundress and saint

Catholic missionary

Meister Eckhart

13/14th-century German theologian, philosopher and mystic

Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910–1997)

Archbishop of San Salvador from 1977 to 1980

20th-century Italian saint, priest stigmatist and mystic

Dutch Jesuit Catholic priest

Jesuit priest and evangelist

Peter the Hermit

11th century French Christian priest and key figure during the First Crusade

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

French philosopher and Jesuit priest (1881–1955)

Pierre-Jean De Smet

Pope Benedict XV

Head of the Catholic Church from 1914 to 1922

Pope Benedict XVI

Head of the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013

266th pope of the Catholic Church

Pope John Paul II

Head of the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005

Pope John XXIII

Head of the Catholic Church from 1958 to 1963

Head of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903

Head of the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978

Head of the Catholic Church from 1903 to 1914

Head of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958

Robert Bellarmine

Catholic cardinal, saint, and Doctor of the Church

Founder of the Dominican Order (1170–1221)

Teresa of Ávila

Roman Catholic saint (1515–1582)

Thérèse of Lisieux

French Discalced Carmelite nun and saint (1873–1897)

Thomas à Kempis

German canon regular

Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170, Christian martyr

16th-century Archbishop of York, Chancellor of England, and cardinal

Tomás de Torquemada

Grand Inquisitor of Spain (1420–1498)