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Born c.1100 • Denmark
Died September 1182 • Clairvaux • France
Absalon
Absalon
Danish archbishop
Paul Helgesen
Danish humanist
Henri Arnauld
French bishop
Antoine Arnauld
French lawyer
Catherine Arnauld
French nun
Christopher
duke of Württemberg
Ib Spang Olsen
Danish author
Melchior de Polignac
French clergyman and statesman
Emil Poulsen
Danish actor
Olaf Poulsen
Danish actor
portrait of Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer
Charlemagne
Holy Roman emperor [747?–814]
John Paul II
St. John Paul II
pope
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: painting of Joan of Arc
St. Joan of Arc
French heroine
St. Peter the Apostle
St. Peter the Apostle
Christian Apostle
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
Gabriel Marcel
Gabriel Marcel
French philosopher and author
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
St. Gregory the Great
pope