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Also Known As St. Ermengild
Died April 13, 585 • Tarragona
Theodulf of Orléans
bishop and poet
Melchior de Polignac
French clergyman and statesman
Henri Arnauld
French bishop
Saint Benedict of Aniane
French bishop
Catherine Arnauld
French nun
Antoine Arnauld
French lawyer
Christopher
duke of Württemberg
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
Pope Francis
Francis
pope
Gabriel Marcel
Gabriel Marcel
French philosopher and author
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
St. Gregory the Great
pope
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Innocent III
Innocent III
pope
John XXIII
St. John XXIII
pope
Pope Pius IX
Pius IX
pope