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PAPE FRANCOIS (POPE FRANCIS)
Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State
1936 -
Mahatma GANDHI
Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist
1869 - 1948 -
Martin Luther KING
American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement
1929 - 1968 -
MAHOMET
Religious, political, and military leader
570 - 632 -
JEAN-PAUL II
Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 1978 until 2005
1920 - 2005 -
Matthieu RICARD
French writer and Buddhist monk
1946 -
Martin LUTHER
German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation
1483 - 1546 -
Philippe BARBARIN
French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
1950 -
Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET
French bishop
1664 - 1743 -
Jeanne D'ARC
Folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint
1412 - 1431 -
Joseph SMITH
American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement
1805 - 1844 -
Thérèse de LISIEUX
French Carmelite nun
1873 - 1897 -
RICHELIEU
French clergyman, noble, and statesman
1585 - 1642 -
ABBé PIERRE
French Catholic priest
1912 - 2007 -
Bernadette SOUBIROUS
French miller's daughter, she was canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church in 1933
1844 - 1879 -
Jacques MARQUETTE
French-Canadian Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement
1637 - 1675 -
Jacques GAILLOT
French Catholic clergyman and social activist
1935 -
Albert DECOURTRAY
French Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Lyon
1923 - 1994 -
Gérald CAUSSÉ
Presiding Bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1963 -
Georges LEMAITRE
Belgian Catholic Priest, astronomer and professor of physics
1894 - 1966