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Feast day: 7 December
Roman governor acclaimed bishop of Milan while still unbaptised, Ambrose became the great defender of the Church's freedom before emperors, the master of Latin hymnody, and the man who baptised Augustine.
Feast day: 2 May
Deacon at Nicaea and then bishop of Alexandria for forty-five years, five times exiled, Athanasius almost single-handedly preserved the confession that the Son is 'consubstantial with the Father'.
Feast day: 28 August
A brilliant, restless North African who lived far from God, was converted at thirty-two, and became the most influential theologian of the Latin Church.
Feast day: 22 June
Bishop of Rochester, Chancellor of Cambridge and the only English bishop to refuse Henry VIII's supremacy, beheaded weeks after being made cardinal.
Feast day: 22 October
Karol Wojtyła, the Polish pope of twenty-seven years who defended human dignity against totalitarianism, travelled to 129 countries and taught the Church a theology of the body and of divine mercy.
Feast day: 6 December
The fourth-century bishop of Myra whose secret gifts to three dowerless girls made him the most widely venerated saint of the East and the origin of the figure of Santa Claus.
Feast day: 17 March
A Romano-British youth carried off as a slave to Ireland who escaped, became a bishop, and returned to evangelise the island that had enslaved him, leaving in his Confessio one of the earliest autobiographies of Western Christianity.
Feast day: 29 June
The fisherman Jesus renamed Peter — the rock — who denied his Lord, was forgiven, led the apostles, and was martyred in Rome.