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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: 13 June
An Augustinian scholar who became a Franciscan preacher of extraordinary power, famous today as the finder of lost things.
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: 29 April
A dyer's daughter with no formal schooling who counselled popes, worked for peace in Italy and became a Doctor of the Church.
Feast day: 3 September
Roman prefect turned monk and then pope, Gregory fed a starving city, negotiated with the Lombards, reformed the liturgy and chant that bear his name, and sent Augustine of Canterbury to convert the English.
Feast day: 30 September
The fiercest and most learned of the Latin Fathers, who left Rome for a cave in Bethlehem and translated the whole Bible from Hebrew and Greek into the Latin Vulgate that the West read for sixteen centuries.
Feast day: 14 December
Carmelite friar, poet and Doctor of the Church who mapped the soul's journey through the dark night to union with God.
Feast day: 15 October
A Spanish Carmelite reformer and mystical writer who mapped the interior life and, with Saint John of the Cross, renewed her order.
Feast day: 1 October
A hidden Carmelite nun who died at twenty-four and taught the 'little way' of confidence and love — now a Doctor of the Church and patroness of the missions.
Feast day: 28 January
The greatest theologian of the Middle Ages, author of the Summa Theologiae, who showed that faith and reason cannot contradict each other.