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Born Scotland? • England?
Died March 10, 1173 • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study mysticism
St. Ignatius of Loyola
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish saint
Joachim Of Fiore
Italian theologian
Gerson, engraving
Jean de Gerson
French theologian
Franz Xaver von Baader
German theologian
Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
French abbot
St. Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure
Italian theologian
Meister Eckhart
German theologian and mystic
St. Gregory of Nyssa
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Byzantine philosopher and theologian
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Syrian author
Macarius the Egyptian
Egyptian monk
Schwenckfeld, detail from a portrait by an unknown artist, 1556; in the Schwenkfelder Library, Pennsburg, Pa.
Kaspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig
German theologian
Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī
Indian mystic and theologian
Isaac Of Stella
English philosopher and theologian
William of Saint-Thierry
French philosopher
Sebastian Franck
German theologian
Diadochus Of Photice
theologian
Evagrius Ponticus
Christian mystic
Gregory of Sinai
Greek Orthodox monk