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Facts

Also Known As Marcion of Sinope
Flourished 101 - 200
Founder Marcionites
Cerinthus
Egyptian theologian
Bardesanes
Syrian scholar
Simon Magus
Samarian magician
Valentinus
Gnostic philosopher
Theodotus The Gnostic
Gnostic philosopher
Basilides
Syrian philosopher
Heracleon
Gnostic philosopher
Francisco Garcés
Spanish missionary
Caravaggio: The Conversion of St. Paul (second version)
St. Paul the Apostle
Christian Apostle
John Locke
John Locke
English philosopher
John Paul II
St. John Paul II
pope
St. Peter the Apostle
St. Peter the Apostle
Christian Apostle
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas
Italian Christian theologian and philosopher
Pope Gregory VII, after his expulsion from Rome, laying a ban of excommunication on the clergy “together with the raging king” (Henry IV of Germany), drawing from the 12th-century chronicle of Otto of Freising; in the library of the University of Jena, Germany.
St. Gregory VII
pope
Pope Francis
Francis
pope
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher
St. Gregory the Great
pope
Innocent III
Innocent III
pope
Pius IX
Pius IX
pope