Category
page 1Catholic poets

Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
Francis of Assisi
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2–1226)
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16th-century Portuguese poet
Teresa of Ávila
Roman Catholic saint (1515-1582)

Alessandro Manzoni
Italian writer and poet (1785–1873)
Torquato Tasso
Italian poet (1544–1595)

Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
Jon Fosse
Norwegian writer, theater writer and translator
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist (1874–1929)
Ephrem the Syrian
Syriac saint, theologian and writer (c. 306 – 373)
Joost van den Vondel
Dutch poet and writer (1587-1679)

Gerard Manley Hopkins
English poet (1844–1889)

Ernesto Cardenal
Nicaraguan priest and politician (1925-2020)

Hans Urs von Balthasar
Swiss Catholic theologian (1905–1988)

Marko Marulić
Croatian national poet and European humanist

Radu Vasile
57th Prime Minister of Romania (1998-1999)

Miklós Radnóti
Hungarian Jewish Christian poet (1909–1944)

George Coșbuc
Romanian poet, translator, teacher and journalist (1866-1918)
Gabriel García Moreno
President of Ecuador (1860-1865; 1869; 1869-1875)
Bertus Aafjes
Dutch poet and writer (1914–1993)
Vladimír Holan
Czech poet and translator (1905-1980)
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Polish poet, Catholic priest (1915–2006)
Ernst Fuchs
Austrian artist (1930-2015)
Dun Karm Psaila
Maltese poet (1871-1961)
Gottschalk of Orbais
German theologian
Vitsentzos Kornaros
Greek writer
Ján Hollý
Slovak Catholic priest, writer, poet and translator
Juan Zorrilla de San Martín
Uruguayan poet (1855–1931)
Adam Naruszewicz
Polish noble
Marco Girolamo Vida
Italian bishop
Johannes Jørgensen
Danish writer (1866–1956)
Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna
Polish author and translator (1892–1983)
Maxence Caron
French writer and philosopher
Jean de Sponde
French poet
Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic
Czech poet, traveller, humanist and satiricist
Jaroslav Durych
Czech poet, playwright, essayist, doctor, religion writer, publicist, translator, bookwriter, writer and historic literature writer (1886–1962)
António Nobre
Portuguese poet (1867–1900)
Wu Li
Chinese painter (1632-1718)
Adélia Prado
Brazilian writer and poet
Ivan Bunić Vučić
Croatian poet (1592-1658)
Anna Kamieńska
Poet, writer and translator (1920-1986)
Gheorghe Șincai
Romanian poet and historian
Benedict Wallet Vilakazi
South African Zulu poet, novelist, and educator (1906–1947)
Jorge de Lima
Brazilian writer and politician (1893-1953)
José Régio
Portuguese poet (1901–1969)
Lorenz Leopold Haschka
Austrian writer
Fanny Howe
American writer (1940–2025)
Diego José Abad y García
Jesuit poet and translator (1727-1779)

Christine Busta
Austrian poet and writer (1915-1987)
Felix Braun
Austrian writer (1885–1973)
Ivan Diviš
Czech writer (1924–1999)
Bedřich Bridel
Czech baroque writer, poet, and missionary
Moses Dobruška
Czech writer (1753–1794)
Preng Doçi
Albanian writer (1846-1917)

Gaspar Aquino de Belen
Filipino writer
James K. Baxter
New Zealand poet (1926–1972)
John Ching Hsiung Wu
Chinese poet (1899–1986)
Ruy Belo
Portuguese writer (1933–1978)
Leonardo Castellani
Argentine writer (1897–1981)
James McAuley
Australian poet and academic (1917-1976)