Esar-haddon (Esarhaddon)

Felix's successor as procurator, before whom Paul appealed to Caesar — and who interrupted Paul's defence to tell him that much learning had made him mad.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (June 19, 1834 – January 31, 1892) — "the Prince of Preachers" — was an English Particular (Reformed) Baptist preacher whose 38-year pastorate at New…

Pamphilus was born wealthy at Berytus — modern Beirut — and could have had the public career his family expected. He studied at Alexandria under Pierius, who was called the…

Severus was born about 465 at Sozopolis in Pisidia, in Asia Minor, into a wealthy family; his grandfather had been a bishop. He was sent to Alexandria to study grammar and…

Gregory was born about 335 at Caesarea in Cappadocia, into a family that produced more saints than most centuries do: his grandmother Macrina the Elder had survived persecution…

Gregory was born about 329 at Arianzus, near the town of Nazianzus in Cappadocia. His father, also Gregory, had belonged to an odd Jewish-pagan sect before his wife Nonna…