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Also Known As Francis Neil Aidan Gasquet
Born October 5, 1846 • London • England
Died April 5, 1929 (aged 82) • Rome • Italy
Subjects Of Study Christianity • monasticism
Edmer
English biographer and historian
Hugh Paulin Cressy
English author and editor
St. Gregory the Great
pope
Bonaventura Berlinghieri: St. Francis and Scenes from His Life
St. Francis of Assisi
Italian saint
Pelagius
Christian theologian
Ekkehard IV
German historian
John Locke
John Locke
English philosopher
St. Benedict of Nursia
St. Benedict
Italian monk
Pius VII
pope
William Carey.
William Carey
British missionary
Saint Dunstan of Canterbury
English archbishop
Saint Celestine V
pope
Blessed Urban V
pope
Adrian IV
Adrian IV
pope
St. Oswald of York
English saint
Whiston, oil painting by an unknown artist after a portrait by Sarah Hoadly, c. 1720; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Whiston
Anglican priest and mathematician
Thomas Woolston
English theologian
Thomas Chubb, detail of an oil painting by George Beare, 1747; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Chubb
British theologian
William Law
British author
Byrhtferth of Ramsey
English monk