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Born c.1373
Died c.1440
Isaac Of Stella
English philosopher and theologian
Augustine Baker
English monk
Julian of Norwich
English mystic
William Law
British author
Rolle, detail from “Religious Poems,” early 15th century; in the British Library (Cotton Ms. Faustina B. VI)
Richard Rolle
British mystic
Hugh Paulin Cressy
English author and editor
Evelyn Underhill
British writer
Walter Hilton
English mystic and author
William Alabaster
English scholar
W. T. Stace
British philosopher
Jane Leade
English mystic
Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
Bonaventura Berlinghieri: St. Francis and Scenes from His Life
St. Francis of Assisi
Italian saint
St. Ignatius of Loyola
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish saint
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade
Romanian religious historian and author
Isaac ben Solomon Luria
Jewish mystic
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
French abbot
Joachim Of Fiore
Italian theologian
St. Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure
Italian theologian