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Thomas Aquinas
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274)
John Paul II
264th pope of the Catholic Church (1978–2005)
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
Joan of Arc
French folk heroine (1412–1431), military leader who crowned Charles VII and Roman Catholic saint, canonized 500 years after her death
Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
Teresa of Ávila
Roman Catholic saint (1515-1582)
Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish Catholic priest and theologian (1491–1556)
Bernard of Clairvaux
Burgundian saint, abbot and theologian (1090-1153)
Thérèse of Lisieux
French Discalced Carmelite nun, Doctor of the Church (1873–1897)
Catherine of Siena
Italian Dominican saint (1347-1380)
Nicholas of Cusa
German philosopher (1401 – 1464)
John of the Cross
Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint (1542–1591)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Italian Renaissance philosopher (1463–1494)
Francis de Sales
French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church (1567-1622)
Meister Eckhart
German philosopher and theologian
Thomas à Kempis
German canon regular
Marsilio Ficino
Italian philosopher and Catholic priest (1433–1499)
François Fénelon
French archbishop, theologian and writer (1651–1715)
Juliusz Słowacki
Polish Romantic poet (1809–1849)
Bridget of Sweden
Swedish nun, mystic, and saint (c.1303–1373)
Bernadette Soubirous
French saint (1844–1879)
Josemaría Escrivá
Spanish priest, writer and Catholic saint
Santa Faustina Kowalska
nun and saint from Poland (1905–1938)
Jacques Bénigne Bossuet
French bishop and theologian (1627-1704)
Padre Pio
Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
Italian Catholic bishop and saint (1696-1787)
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858–1916)
Philip Neri
Italian Roman Catholic saint and founder
Thomas Merton
priest and author (1915–1968)
Peter Lombard
medieval priest and theologian
Angelus Silesius
German writer
Margaret Mary Alacoque
Catholic Saint and Mystic (1647-1690)
Anneliese Michel
John of Ávila
Spanish priest, Doctor of the Church
Jean Gerson
French academic (1363/1369–1429)
Anthony de Mello
Indian writer (1931-1987)
Hugh of Saint Victor
German-French canon regular and theologian
Antoine Arnauld
French theologian, philosopher, mathematician (1612-1694)
Bruno of Cologne
founder of the Carthusian Order (1030–1101)
Luis de León
Spanish poet
Johannes Tauler
German theologian
Peter Waldo
French theologian
Sister Lúcia
Portuguese nun, one of the three children who have witnessed Marian apparitions in Fátima, Portugal, in 1917
Gemma Galgani
Italian saint (1878-1903)
Alain of Lille
French theologian and poet
Joachim of Fiore
Italian abbot
Jean Vanier
Canadian humanitarian, Catholic philosopher, and theologian (1928–2019)
William Langland
English writer
Anne Catherine Emmerich
German Augustinian canoness, mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist (1774-1824)
Catherine of Genoa
Italian author and nurse
Therese Neumann
German mystic (1898-1962)
Peter of Alcantara
Spanish Franciscan friar, Roman Catholic saint
Marguerite Porete
French mystic
Mechthild of Magdeburg
German mystic
Jean Eudes
French Catholic priest (1601–1680)
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest and writer (1932-1996)
Richard Crashaw
English poet and cleric (c.1613 – 1649)
Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
French Roman Catholic mystic
Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin
French philosopher
Geert Groote
Dutch humanist and mystic (1340-1384)