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Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus was born at Carthage around 155, trained in Roman law and rhetoric, and converted as an adult. Jerome says his father was an officer of…

Isidore was born about 560 in Cartagena, in southern Spain, into a family that had already been driven out of somewhere else. His parents died young. His older brother Leander…

Leander was born around 534 at Cartagena in southeastern Spain, into a family that produced four saints. His father Severianus was a provincial official; his brothers…

Peter John Olivi was born in 1248 at Sérignan, in Languedoc in southern France. He joined the Franciscans at twelve and was sent to Paris to study. He was one of the sharpest…

Eric Liddell was born in China to missionary parents, raised in Scotland, and was the fastest man in the country - a rugby international as well as a sprinter. When the 1924…