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Martyr in the Diocletian Persecution

Blind song writer who wrote more than 2500 hymns besides many secular songs, cantatas, and lyrical productions of various kinds.

Russian traveler, writer and theosophist

Protestant martyr

English religious author and philanthropist.

Founder of the first hospital in Rome.

One of the forty-eight martyrs of Lyons who perished during the religious persecution under the emperor Marcus Aurelius.

Russian novelist and mystic

Russian mystic and social leader in Paris.

Queen of England, one of the wives of Henry VIII, mother of Elizabeth I.