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Saints and servants of Christ: Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant, a Sanctuary for All Souls.
Saint John the Forerunner and Baptist
Before the Light came, one voice dared the wilderness.
Eastern Orthodox Christianity (also venerated in Oriental Orthodoxy, Eastern Catholicism, Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Lutheranism)
Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio)
For fifty years he carried the wounds of Christ, and never once put them down.
Roman Catholic
Saint Patrick (Patricius; Irish: Pádraig)
They took him in chains. He came back with the Gospel.
Western Christianity (Romano-British missionary bishop); venerated across Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, and Eastern Orthodox traditions
Hieromonk Seraphim Rose (born Eugene Dennis Rose)
An American skeptic walked into the ancient faith and became its voice in the wilderness.
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
St. Seraphim of Sarov (born Prokhor Moshnin)
A thousand days on a stone, praying, until the light shone through him.
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
St. Joan of Arc (Jehanne d'Arc)
Heaven spoke to a farm girl. Armies followed. Fire answered.
Western Christianity
St. Teresa of Avila (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada; religious name: Teresa of Jesus)
They told her mysticism was no place for a woman. She built an interior castle.
Roman Catholic
Saint Benedict of Nursia
One man left Rome to find God in a cave, and gave the West its soul.
Western Christian / Catholic (also venerated Anglican, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox)
Cornelia (Corrie) ten Boom
She hid the hunted behind a false wall, and forgave the man who found them.
Protestant Christian / Evangelical
John Wesley
Two hundred and fifty thousand miles on horseback, to tell the world it was loved.
Protestant Christian / Wesleyan-Methodist
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
He could have stayed safe in America. He caught the last boat into the fire.
Christian, Protestant
Francis of Assisi (born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone)
A rich man's son kissed a leper, and the world has never recovered.
Roman Catholic (also commemorated in Anglican, Lutheran, and ecumenical calendars)
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin)
She died at twenty-four, unknown. Her little way conquered the world.
Christian / Catholic Mystical
Nicholas of Myra
The real Nicholas gave in secret, struck at lies, and became legend.
Christian, honored universally in East and West
Augustine of Hippo
He chased every pleasure the empire sold, and found his heart still restless.
Christian, Western Church (Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran all claim his legacy)
Hildegard of Bingen (Hildegard von Bingen)
The visions began at three. At forty-two, heaven ordered her to speak.
Catholic (Western Christian, Medieval)
St. Teresa of Calcutta (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu)
She answered a call within a call, and walked into the darkest streets on earth.
Catholic Christianity
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A teenage convert filled the largest halls in London with nothing but a voice.
Protestant Christian, Reformed/Calvinist
Brigid of Kildare (Naomh Bríd)
Ireland kept her flame burning for a thousand years. It has not gone out.
Celtic Christianity / Roman Catholic / venerated in Eastern Orthodoxy
Saint Anthony of Padua (born Fernando Martins de Bulhoes)
The whole world still asks him to find what is lost.
Roman Catholic / Western Latin Church
Mary of Nazareth, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Theotokos, Our Lady
One yes from a village girl, and heaven entered history.
Christian, universally honored across Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran communions
St. Thomas Aquinas
They called him the dumb ox. He built the greatest architecture of thought the Church has ever known.
Catholic Christian
Julian of Norwich (Dame Julian; Lady Juliana of Norwich)
At thirty she lay dying, and heaven showed her sixteen things. All shall be well.
Christian Mystical / Western Catholic
Saint Ignatius of Loyola (born Iñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola)
A cannonball ended his soldiering. What he read while healing began the Jesuits.
Roman Catholic
Saint John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes y Alvarez)
They locked him in a cell too small to stand in. He came out with poetry.
Roman Catholic / Western Christian mystical tradition
Saint Catherine of Siena (Caterina di Jacopo di Benincasa)
She could not write. She still ordered a pope home to Rome.
Roman Catholic
Book II · Works & MinistryInto the World on Fire: Catherine Among Popes, Plague, and the Poor
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Saint John Chrysostom
They exiled him for preaching the truth. Glory to God for all things, he said, and died walking.
Christian, Early Church Father
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
He found in orthodoxy the wildest romance, and laughed the world back to wonder.
Christian Catholic
Paul the Apostle (born Saul of Tarsus)
Struck blind on the road, he rose to carry the Light to the nations.
Christian, Apostolic and universal
Simon Peter (Shimon bar Yonah), called Cephas / Peter
He sank, he denied, he wept. And on this rock the Church was built.
Christianity, universally venerated across Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran traditions
Mary Magdalene (Mary of Magdala)
She stayed at the cross, and was first at the tomb. The risen Lord spoke her name.
Christian, venerated across Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran traditions
Thomas à Kempis (Thomas Hemerken)
In a quiet cell he wrote a quiet book, and five centuries have not exhausted it.
Western Catholic / Devotio Moderna
John Bunyan
They jailed the tinker for preaching. In his cell he dreamed a road the whole world has walked.
Puritan / Nonconformist Protestant
Basil the Great (Basil of Caesarea)
He built a city for the sick and the poor, and called it the ordinary work of the Church.
Christian, Church Father and Doctor of the Church
Martin Luther
Summoned before an emperor and told to recant, he answered that his conscience was bound.
Christian / Protestant
Saint John Cassian
He went to Egypt to ask the old monks how a man ought to pray, and wrote down every answer.
Christian, Church Father, Monastic Theologian
Saint Gregory the Theologian
He preached the Trinity to a city that had forgotten it, then surrendered the throne rather than divide the Church.
Eastern Orthodox / Catholic / Anglican / Lutheran (venerated across traditions)
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