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Born November 25, 1880 • Australia
Died May 5, 1951 (aged 70) • Sydney • Australia
Finney, 1850
Charles Grandison Finney
American evangelist
Henry Harmon Spalding
American minister
Sunday, Billy
Billy Sunday
American evangelist
Robert Morrison
British missionary
Gideon Blackburn
American minister
David Brainerd
American missionary
Sheldon Jackson
American clergyman
Francisco Garcés
Spanish missionary
Saint Cyril
Christian theologian
Luther Rice
American missionary
Johann Gerhardt Oncken
German missionary
Saint Methodius
Christian theologian
Caravaggio: The Conversion of St. Paul (second version)
St. Paul the Apostle
Christian Apostle
St. Peter the Apostle
St. Peter the Apostle
Christian Apostle
St. Gregory the Great
pope
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
American theologian
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Spanish historian and missionary
St. Clement of Alexandria
Christian theologian
St. Francis Xavier
St. Francis Xavier
Christian missionary
St. Luke
St. Luke
biblical author