Early modern Christian devotional writers

English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)

Roman Catholic saint (1515-1582)

French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church (1567-1622)

queen consort of Navarre (1492–1549)

Catholic cardinal, saint, and Doctor of the Church

French Catholic saint, priest, and confessor

English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer

German Lutheran theologian (1555-1621)

English poet and cleric (c.1613 – 1649)

English clergyman (1613–1667)

English Jesuit and poet (1561–1595)

British churchman and poet (1792–1866)

English bishop and scholar

British bishop and writer (1574-1656)

Catholic cardinal

Jesuit missionary and controversialist (1546-1610)

English cleric, nonjuror and theological writer

German Jesuit (1581–1638)

German Lutheran theologian and hymn author

German poet and mystic

German hymnwriter

Welsh Anglican priest and scholar

Spanish writer

British bishop

Filipino writer

Danish bishop and professor (1585-1652)

English minister (1714-1758)

Bishop of Chester; Bishop of London (1786-1857)

French poet

Irish Franciscan Archbishop of Armagh (1571–1626)

Spanish writer and professor (1510-1589)

French monk

English writer