Religion
- Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436–1517), religious reformer, bishop, cardinal and statesman.
- St Dominic of Guzmán (1170–1221), founder of the Order of Preachers.
- St Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636), bishop, humanist and doctor of the Church.
- St Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), founder of the Society of Jesus.
- St John of Avila (1500–1569), priest, preacher, theologian and mystic.
- St John of the Cross (1542–1591), mystic and monastic reformer, doctor of the Church.
- Saints Nunilo and Alodia (died c. 842/51), child martyrs.
- Vicente Enrique y Tarancón (1907–1994) bishop, cardinal and president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference.
- St Teresa of Avila (1515–1582), mystic and monastic reformer, doctor of the Church.
- Tomás de Torquemada (1420–1498), Grand Inquisitor.
- St Joaquina Vedruna (1783–1854), founder of the Carmelite Sisters of the Charity.
- St Vincent Martyr (died c. 304), deacon martyr.
- St Francis Xavier (1506–1552), missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus.
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made—no matter how indirectly—to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible of civilisation. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that their reformation must be worked, and that Missionaries of that description from [France] would avail more than those who should endeavor to tame them by precepts of religion or philosophy.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Not thou nor thy religion dost controule,
The amorousnesse of an harmonious Soule,
But thou would’st have that love thy selfe: As thou
Art jealous, Lord, so I am jealous now,
Thou lov’st not, till from loving more, thou free
My soule: Who ever gives, takes libertie:
O, if thou car’st not whom I love
Alas, thou lov’st not mee.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)