Daughter of Stanisław Kowalski (May 06, 1868 – July 10, 1946)
and Marianna Kowalska (March 08, 1875 – February 17, 1965)
were the parents of
St. Faustina Kowalska (August 25, 1905 – 5 October 5, 1938)
She had apparitions of Jesus Christ which inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, therefore she is sometimes called the “secretary” of Divine Mercy.
On 10 October 1937, in her diary (Notebook IV, item 1320) Kowalska attributed the following statement to Jesus:
At three o’clock, implore My mercy, especially for sinners; and, if only for a brief moment, immerse yourself in My Passion, particularly in My abandonment at the moment of agony. This is the hour of great mercy. In this hour, I will refuse nothing to the soul that makes a request of Me in virtue of My Passion. (Diary 1320)
This means that Jesus wants to have mercy on everyone.
All people regardless of race, sex, creed or religion.
And there are a lot of people who believe a lot of different things about God and the world beyond our own.
As Catholics
The Church reproves, as foreign to the mind of Christ, any discrimination against men or harassment of them because of their race, color, condition of life, or religion. On the contrary, following in the footsteps of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, this sacred synod ardently implores the Christian faithful to “maintain good fellowship among the nations” (1 Peter 2:12), and, if possible, to live for their part in peace with all men,(14) so that they may truly be sons of the Father who is in heaven.(15) Nostra aetate
To clarify further…
The church also recognizes that other religions very often contain “true and holy” elements—“rays of the same Truth” that the church professes. Because of this, people of other faiths deserve our admiration and respect, and the church calls on all people to engage in dialogue and collaboration around our shared values.
At Vatican II, the church highlighted many positive aspects of other religions that are similar to those of the Catholic faith and practice.
This article is part of a series of Notable People Alive In 1889 and citations are taken directly from Wikipedia.
Born in 1800’s
Fr. Ányos Jedlik
(January 11, 1800 – December 13, 1895)
He was a Hungarian inventor, engineer, physicist, and Benedictine priest. He was also a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and author of several books. He is considered by Hungarians and Slovaks to be the unsung father of the dynamo and electric motor.
Edward Beecher
(August 27, 1803 – July 28, 1895)
He was an American theologian, the son of Lyman Beecher and the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher.
James Martineau
(April 21, 1805 – January 11, 1900)
He was a British religious philosopher influential in the history of Unitarianism.
- When the blessed Spirit, that bloweth where it listeth, visits you and stirs the plumage of the soul, seek no cowardly shelter from it, but fling yourself upon it, and, though its sweep be awful, you shall be sustained. Only do this, do all, not in presumptuous daring, but in divine submission; in dependence, not on any strength that can be spent, but on the ever-living stay of all that trust in Him.
- Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) P. 321.
Born in 1810’s
The Fox Sisters
Leah (April 8, 1813 – November 1, 1890),
Margaretta (also called Maggie), (October 7, 1833 – March 8, 1893)
and Catherine Fox (also called Kate) (March 27, 1837 – July 2, 1892)
The Fox sisters were three sisters from Rochester, New York who played an important role in the creation of Spiritualism. The two younger sisters used “rappings” to convince their older sister and others that they were communicating with spirits. Their older sister then took charge of them and managed their careers for some time. They all enjoyed success as mediums for many years.
In 1888, Margaretta confessed that their rappings had been a hoax and publicly demonstrated their method. Despite their confession, the Spiritualism movement continued to grow in popularity.
Edward Frederick Sorin, C.S.C.
(February 6, 1814 – October 31, 1893)
He was a French-born priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross and the founder of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and of St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas.
Princess Leonilla Bariatinskaya,
(May 9, 1816 – February 1, 1918)
She was a Russian aristocrat who married Ludwig, Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (June 8, 1799 – June 20, 1866), She was the subject of a number of portraits by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (April 20, 1805 – July 8, 1873)
On June 24, 1847, with the consent of her husband, Leonilla converted from Orthodoxy to Catholicism. His faith had always influenced her. Once she was widowed, she devoted even more to philanthropic works and philanthropy.
In 1876, at a time when the exercise of the Catholic faith was not yet fully authorized in the canton of Vaud, she built on her property a private chapel, which became in 1912 the parish church of the Sacred Heart of Ouchy. Her funeral was held in this church on February 5, 1918.
Born in 1820’s
Mary Baker Eddy
(July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910)
She was an American religious leader and author who founded The Church of Christ, Scientist, in New England in 1879. In 1881, she founded the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, where she taught approximately 800 students between the years 1882 and 1889, when she closed it.
Marie Therese Vauzou
(August 10, 1825 – February 15, 1907)
She was a French Catholic nun who is known as having been the Mistress of Novices and later Mother Superior at the Sisters of Charity of Nevers, during Bernadette Soubirous‘ lifetime.
Father Albert Lacombe
(February 28, 1827 – December 12, 1916)
He , was a French-Canadian Roman Catholic missionary who travelled among and evangelized the Cree and also visited the Blackfoot First Nations of northwestern Canada. He is now remembered for having brokered a peace between the Cree and Blackfoot, negotiating construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway through Blackfoot territory, and securing a promise from the Blackfoot leader Crowfoot to refrain from joining the North-West Rebellion of 1885.
Ellen G. White,
(November 26, 1827 – July 16, 1915)
She was an American author and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Along with other Adventist leaders such as Joseph Bates and her husband James White, she was instrumental within a small group of early Adventists who formed what became known as the Seventh-day Adventist Church. White is considered a leading figure in American vegetarian history. Smithsonian named her among the “100 Most Significant Americans of All Time”
Catherine Booth, English Mother of The Salvation Army
(January 17, 1829 – October 4, 1890)
She was co-founder of The Salvation Army, along with her husband William Booth. Because of her influence in the formation of The Salvation Army she was known as the ‘Mother of The Salvation Army’.
Charbel Makhlouf
(May 8, 1828 – December 24, 1898)
Feast: July 24
Patron: Lebanon
He was a Maronite monk and priest from Lebanon. During his life, he obtained a wide reputation for holiness, and for his ability to unite Christians, Muslims and Druze.
He is known among Lebanese Christians as the “Miracle Monk of Lebanon” because of the favours received through his intercession, especially after prayers are said at his tomb in the Monastery of Saint Maron in Annaya, Lebanon.
Armand David, CM
(September 7, 1826 – 10 November 1900)
He was a Lazarist missionary Catholic priest as well as a zoologist and a botanist. Several species, such as Père David’s deer, are named after him — Père David being French for Father David.
The West first learned of the giant panda on March 11, 1869, when Fr. David received a skin from a hunter. The first Westerner known to have seen a living giant panda is the German zoologist Hugo Weigold (May 27, 1886 – July 9, 1973) , who purchased a cub in 1916.
Milton Wright
(November 17, 1828 – April 3, 1917)
He was the father of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, and a bishop of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.
Gregor Mendel’s’ Sister
Gregor Mendel
(July 20, 1822 – January 6, 1884)
He was an Austrian-Czech biologist, meteorologist,mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas’ Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel was born in a German-speaking family in the Silesian part of the Austrian Empire (today’s Czech Republic) and gained posthumous recognition as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Though farmers had known for millennia that crossbreeding of animals and plants could favor certain desirable traits, Mendel’s pea plant experiments conducted between 1856 and 1863 established many of the rules of heredity, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance.
He is the brother of
Theresia Schindler (Mendel) (1829 – 1908)
William Booth, British founder of The Salvation Army
(April 10, 1829 – August 20, 1912)
He was an English Methodist preacher who, along with his wife, Catherine, founded the Salvation Army and became its first General (1878–1912). The Christian movement with a quasi-military structure and government founded in 1865 has spread from London to many parts of the world. It is known for being one of the largest distributors of humanitarian aid.
Fanny Stenhouse
(April 12, 1829 – April 19, 1904)
. She was an early Mormon pioneer who was excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and was most famous for her 1872 publication Exposé of Polygamy in Utah: A Lady’s Life among the Mormons, a record of personal experience as one of the wives of a Mormon elder during a period of more than twenty years in the mid-1800s.
Born in 1830’s
Salvatore di Pietro
(June 15, 1830 – August 23, 1898)
He was an Italian Bishop in the Catholic Church. He served as the first Vicar Apostolic of Belize from 1893-1898. He is widely regarded as the most important figure in consolidating the Catholic presence in Belize in the second half of the 19th century.
Helena Blavatsky
(August 12, 1831 – May 8, 1891)
Often known as Madame Blavatsky, was a Russian and American mystic and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. She gained an international following as the primary founder of Theosophy as a belief system.
Mélanie Calvat
(November 7, 1831 – December 14, 1904)
Her religious name was Mary of the Cross, who was a French religious sister in the Roman Catholic church. She and Maximin Giraud (August 26, 1835 – March 1, 1875) were the two seers of Our Lady of La Salette.
Thomas De Witt Talmage
(January 7, 1832 – April 12, 1902)
He was a preacher, clergyman and divine in the United States who held pastorates in the Reformed Church in America and Presbyterian Church. He was one of the most prominent religious leaders in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century, equaled as a pulpit orator perhaps only by Henry Ward Beecher. He also preached to crowds in England. During the 1860s and 70s, Talmage was a well-known reformer in New York City and was often involved in crusades against vice and crime.
Hudson Taylor
(May 21, 1832 – June 3, 1905)
He was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM, now OMF International). Taylor spent 54 years in China. The society that he began was responsible for bringing over 800 missionaries to the country who started 125 schools and directly resulted in 20,000 Christian conversions, as well as the establishment of more than 300 stations of work with more than 499 local helpers in all 18 provinces.
William Crookes
(June 17, 1832 – April 4, 1919)
He was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, now part of Imperial College London, and worked on spectroscopy. He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube which was made in 1875. This was a foundational discovery that eventually changed the whole of chemistry and physics.
He is credited with discovering the element thallium, announced in 1861, with the help of spectroscopy. He was also the first to describe the spectrum of terrestrial helium, in 1865. Crookes was the inventor of the Crookes radiometer but did not discern the true explanation of the phenomenon he detected. Crookes also invented a 100% ultraviolet blocking sunglass lens. For a time, he was interested in spiritualism and became president of the Society for Psychical Research.
Mormon Founder Joseph Smith’s Son
Joseph Smith
(December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844)
He was an American religious leader and the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. Publishing the Book of Mormon at the age of 24, Smith attracted tens of thousands of followers by the time of his death fourteen years later. The religion he founded is followed to the present day by millions of global adherents and several churches, the largest of which is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
He was the father of
Joseph Smith III
(November 6, 1832 – December 10, 1914)
He was the eldest surviving son of Joseph Smith and his wife Emma Hale Smith. Joseph Smith III was the Prophet-President of what became the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church), renamed Community of Christ in 2001, which considers itself a continuation of the church established by Smith’s father in 1830. For fifty-four years until his own death, Smith presided over the church.[4] Smith’s moderate ideas and nature set much of the tone for the church’s development, earning him the sobriquet of “the pragmatic prophet”.
St. Mark Ji Tianxiang
(1834 – July 7, 1900)
Feast: July 7
Patron: Drug Addicts
He was a Chinese lay Catholic and doctor. He was martyred during the Boxer Rebellion and had been an opium addict. Ji and 119 other Christians were rounded up and asked to renounce Christianity, but they refused. Ji begged the rebels to kill him last so that he could encourage his family to die as martyrs and they wouldn’t have to die alone. He didn’t renounce his Catholic faith and hence was beheaded.
Charles Spurgeon
(June 19, 1834 – January 31, 1892)
He was an English Particular Baptist preacher.
Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, to some of whom he is known as the “Prince of Preachers.” He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day.
Spurgeon was pastor of the congregation of the New Park Street Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle) in London for 38 years. He was part of several controversies with the Baptist Union of Great Britain and later he left the denomination over doctrinal convictions.
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
(February 13, 1835 – May 26, 1908)
He was an Indian religious leader and the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam. He claimed to have been divinely appointed as the promised Messiah and Mahdī—which is the metaphorical second-coming of Jesus (mathīl-iʿIsā), in fulfillment of the Islamic prophecies regarding the end times, as well as the Mujaddid (centennial reviver) of the 14th Islamic century.
In 1889, he took a pledge of allegiance from forty of his supporters at Ludhiana and formed a community of followers upon what he claimed was divine instruction, stipulating ten conditions of initiation, an event that marks the establishment of the Ahmadiyya movement.
John F. Funk
(April 6, 1835 – January 8, 1930)
He was a publisher and leader of the Mennonite Church. Funk published the Herald of Truth from 1864 until 1908 when it merged with the Gospel Witness to form the Gospel Herald. Jacob Clemens Kolb, in his preface to Bless the Lord, O My Soul quotes an unnamed commentator who said, “John F. Funk is the most important [Mennonite] man after Menno Simons.
Nicholas of Japan
( August 13, 1836 – February 16, 1912)
He was a Russian Orthodox priest, monk, and bishop. He introduced the Eastern Orthodox Church to Japan.The Orthodox cathedral of Tokyo (metropolitan diocese of Japan), Tokyo Resurrection Cathedral, was informally named after him as Nikorai-do, first by the local community, and today nationwide, in remembrance of his work.
Eliza Warren Spalding
Aug 11, 1837 – Jun 21, 1919 (aged 81)
Eliza was the oldest child of the Reverend Henry H. and Eliza (Hart) Spalding, Presbyterian missionaries who were sent into the wild and untamed northwest to teach the white man’s religion and save the souls of the native Indians.
Nao Deguchi
(January 22, 1837 – November 16, 1918)
He founded the religion Oomoto-kyo after being possessed by a spirit called Ushitora no Konjin. Even though she was illiterate, she wrote 200,000 pages of prophesies while possessed.
Jamal al-Din al-Afghani
(1838/1839 – March 9, 1897)
He was a political activist and Islamic ideologist who travelled throughout the Muslim world during the late 19th century. He is one of the founders of Islamic Modernism as well as an advocate of Pan-Islamic unity in India against the British. He has been described as having been less interested in minor differences in Islamic jurisprudence than he was in organizing a united response to Western pressure. He is also known for his involvement with his follower Mirza Reza Kermani in the successful plot to assassinate Shah Naser-al-Din, whom Afghani considered to be making too many concessions to foreign powers, especially the British Empire.
Marianne Cope, OSF,
(also known as Saint Marianne of Molokaʻi)
(January 23, 1838 – August 9, 1918)
When Father Damien died on April 15, 1889, the government officially gave Mother Marianne charge of care of the boys of Kalaupapa along with her current role in caring for the colony’s female residents. A prominent local businessman, Henry Perrine Baldwin, donated money for the new home. Mother Marianne and two assistants, Sister Leopoldina Burns and Sister Vincentia McCormick, opened and ran a new girls’ school, which she named in Baldwin’s honor. A community of Religious Brothers was sought to come and care for the boys.
Born in 1840’s
Saint Mary MacKillop
(January 15, 1842 – August 8, 1909)
Feast: August 8
Patron: Australia
All Kinds of Saints Day
She was an Australian religious sister of Scottish descent. She was born in Melbourne but is best known for her activities in South Australia. Together with Fr Julian Tenison-Woods, she founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (the Josephites), a congregation of religious sisters that established a number of schools and welfare institutions throughout Australia and New Zealand, with an emphasis on education for the rural poor. She is the first Australian Catholic saint.
First Woman Rabbi’s Parents
Wolf Adolf Jonas (1843-1913)
Sara Jonas (Hess) (1876-1944)
Regina Jonas
(August 3, 1902 – October/December 12, 1944)
She was a Berlin-born Reform rabbi. In 1935, she became the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi. Jonas was murdered in the Holocaust.
C. I. Scofield
(August 19, 1843 – July 24, 1921)
He was an American theologian, minister, and writer whose best-selling annotated Bible popularized futurism and dispensationalism among fundamentalist Christians.
ʻAbdu’l-Bahá
(May 23, 1844 – November 28, 1921)
He was the eldest son of Baháʼu’lláh and served as head of the Baháʼí Faith from 1892 until 1921.ʻAbdu’l-Bahá was later canonized as the last of three “central figures” of the religion, along with Baháʼu’lláh and the Báb, and his writings and authenticated talks are regarded as sources of Baháʼí sacred literature.
Saint André Bessette,
(August 9, 1845 – January 6, 1937),
He was a lay brother of the Congregation of Holy Cross and a significant figure of the Catholic Church among French-Canadians. He is credited with thousands of reported healings associated with his pious devotion to Saint Joseph. Bessette was declared venerable in 1978 and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1982.[2] Pope Benedict XVI approved the decree of sainth He is the first Canadian living after Confederation to be canonized.
Ledi Sayadaw
(December 1, 1846 – June 27, 1923)
He was an influential Theravada Buddhist monk. He was recognized from a young age as being developed in both the theory (Abhidhamma) and practice of Buddhism and so was revered as being scholarly. He wrote many books on Dhamma in Burmese and these were accessible even to a serious lay person, hence he was responsible for spreading Dhamma to all levels of society and reviving the traditional practice of Vipassanā meditation, making it more available for renunciates and lay people alike.
Ibrahim al-Yaziji
(1847–1906)
He was a Lebanese Christian writer, philologist, poet and journalist published a rich modern Arabic translation of the Bible. His works were also crucial to the establishment of the Arabic typewriter
Born in 1850’s
Mary Byrne (witness)
(1850 – October 19, 1936)
She was an Irish woman considered to be the chief witness of the apparition at Knock, County Mayo.
Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini
(July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917)
On July 7, 1946, Mother Cabrini became the first U.S. citizen to be canonized a saint by the Catholic Church.[a][3] She had entered the United States via New York City, and is now the patron saint of immigrants.
Mother Cabrini is also the first woman to have a paid state holiday named for her in the United States.
March 31, 1889 – The first U.S. citizen to be canonized a saint, , arrives in New York City along with six other sisters to begin ministering to the Italian immigrants.
Arnold Mathew
(7 August 1852 – 19 December 1919)
He was the founder and first bishop of the Old Roman Catholic Church in the United Kingdom and a noted author on ecclesiastical subjects. Mathew was educated at Sedbergh School. He was a relative of Theobald Mathew, (October 10, 1790 – December 8, 1856) the noted “Apostle of Temperance”.
Charles Taze Russell
(February 16, 1852 – October 31, 1916)
Jehovah’s Witnesses is a nontrinitarian, millenarian, restorationist Christian denomination. The group emerged in the United States from the Bible Student movement founded in the late 1870s by Charles Taze Russell, who also co-founded Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society in 1881 to organize and print the movement’s publications.
Louis Klopsch
(March 7, 1852 – March 6, 1910)
He was a German-American journalist, publisher, and fundraiser for charitable causes. He originated red letter editions of the Bible.
Blessed Michael Joseph McGivney
(August 12, 1852 – August 14, 1890)
He was an Irish-American Catholic priest based in New Haven, Connecticut. He founded the Knights of Columbus at a local parish to serve as a mutual aid and insurance organization, particularly for immigrants and their families. It developed through the 20th century as the world’s largest Catholic fraternal organization. St. Thomas Church in Thomaston in 1884.
Mihailo Tolotos
(Around 1855 – October 29, 1938)
The Edinburg Daily Courier newspaper in an article dated October 29, 1938, tells a fascinating story about a Greek monk who supposedly lived his entire life without ever seeing a woman. His mother having died in childbirth and he was brought up in the monastery by the monks.
He was a part of the Monastic community of Mount Athos which is an Eastern Orthodox community of monks around Mount Athos, Greece, who hold the status of an autonomous region with its own sovereignty within Greece and the European Union.
The community includes 20 monasteries and the settlements on which they depend. The monasteries house around 2,000 Eastern Orthodox monks from Greece and many other countries, including Eastern Orthodox countries such as Romania, Moldova, Georgia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine and Russia, who claim to live an ascetic life at Athos, isolated from the rest of the world. The Athonite monasteries feature a rich collection of well-preserved artifacts, rare books, ancient documents, and artworks of immense historical value, and Mount Athos has been listed as a World Heritage Site since 1988.
Only men are allowed to enter, while women and most female animals are banned from Mount Athos by religious tradition of the community that lives there.
During the German occupation of Greece, the Epistassia formally asked Adolf Hitler to place the monastic community under his personal protection. Hitler agreed and received the title “High Protector of the Holy Mountain” (German: Hoher Protektor des heiligen Berges) from the monks. The monastic community was able to avoid significant damage during the war.
Jacob Wainwright
(c. 1859 – April 1892)
He was a Black African man who worked as an attendant for the explorer David Livingstone (March 9, 1813 – May 1, 1873). David was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary[2] with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa.
Wainwright joined a mission led by Edward C. Hore and in the late 1880s he joined the London Missionary Society mission in Urambo District, German East Africa (modern Tanzania) where he translated hymns and passages of scripture. He was 30 years old in 1889.
Frank Podmore
(February 5, 1856 – August 14, 1910)
He was an English author and founding member of the Fabian Society as well as an influential member of the Society for Psychical Research. He is known for his interest in spiritualism, which he eventually developed a sceptical attitude towards, specifically the claims of mediumship which he attacked in his history of mediumship, The New Spiritualism (1910). However, he defended other spiritualist beliefs such as telepathy and ghosts.
Father Francis J. Finn,
(October 4, 1859 – November 2, 1928)
He was an American Jesuit priest who wrote a series of 27 popular novels for young people. The books contain fun stories, likeable characters and themes that remain current in today’s world. Each story conveys an important moral precept. The first one in series of Tom Playfair books was Tom Playfair; or, Making a Start (1890).
Born in 1860’s
Satanic Church Founder’s Parents
Leon Levy (1860-1911)
+ Michael Joseph Levey (Levy) (1892-1931)
= Anton LaVey
(April 11, 1930 – October 29, 1997)
He was an American author, musician, and LaVeyan Satanist. He was the founder of the Church of Satan, the philosophy of LaVeyan Satanism, and the concept of Satanism. He authored several books, including The Satanic Bible, The Satanic Rituals, The Satanic Witch, The Devil’s Notebook, and Satan Speaks! In addition, he released three albums, including The Satanic Mass, Satan Takes a Holiday, and Strange Music. He played a minor on-screen role and served as technical advisor for the 1975 film The Devil’s Rain and served as host and narrator for Nick Bougas‘ 1989 mondo film Death Scenes.
Billy Sunday
(November 19, 1862 – November 6, 1935)
He was an American evangelist and professional baseball outfielder. He played for eight seasons in the National League before becoming the most influential American preacher during the first two decades of the 20th century. Converting to evangelical Christianity in the 1880s, Sunday left baseball for the Christian ministry. During the early 20th century, he became the nation’s most famous evangelist with his colloquial sermons and frenetic delivery. Sunday held widely reported campaigns in America’s largest cities, and he attracted the largest crowds of any evangelist before the advent of electronic sound systems. Sunday was a strong supporter of Prohibition, and his preaching likely played a significant role in the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919. Though his audiences grew smaller during the 1920s, Sunday continued to preach and promote conservative Christianity until his death.
Swami Vivekananda
(January 12, 1863 –July 4, 1902),
He was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world, and is the father of modern Indian nationalism who is credited with raising interfaith awareness and bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion in the late nineteenth century.
Blessed José Gregorio Hernández
(October 26, 1864 – June 29,1919)
All Blessed Saints Day | Mark Wilson (patheos.com)
He was a Venezuelan physician. Born in Isnotú, Trujillo State, he became a highly renowned doctor, more so after his death.
John Mott
(May 25, 1865 – January 31, 1955)
He was an evangelist and long-serving leader of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) and the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF). He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for his work in establishing and strengthening international Protestant Christian student organizations that worked to promote peace. He shared the prize with Emily Balch. From 1895 until 1920 Mott was the General Secretary of the WSCF. Intimately involved in the formation of the World Council of Churches in 1948, that body elected him as a lifelong honorary President. He helped found the World Student Christian Federation in 1895, the 1910 World Missionary Conference and the World Council of Churches in 1948. His best-known book, The Evangelization of the World in this Generation, became a missionary slogan in the early 20th century.
Abraham Isaac Kook
(September 7, 1865 – September 1, 1935)
He was an Orthodox rabbi, and the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine. He is considered to be one of the fathers of religious Zionism and is known for founding the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva.
The purerighteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom. Arpilei Tohar (1914), p. 2.
Raphael Morgan
(c. 1866 – July 29, 1922)
He was a Jamaican-American who is believed to be the first Black Eastern Orthodox priest in the United States. After being active in other denominations, including the AME Church, Church of England, and the Episcopal Church, Morgan converted to Orthodoxy. He was ordained as an Orthodox priest of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. He was designated as “Missionary (Greek: Ιεραποστολος) to America and the West Indies.” He claimed to have founded the “Order of Golgotha”, but the Orthodox Church is not organized into orders.
Jack Chick’s Family Tree
Charles Fenno “Charlie” Chick (1867-1942) is the father of
Thomas Edward Chick (1903-1973)
Thomas Edward Chick
+ Pauline Olga Freas Chick (1903-1991)
= Jack Chick
(April 13, 1924 – October 23, 2016)
He was an American cartoonist and publisher, best known for his fundamentalist Christian “Chick tracts“. He expressed his perspective on a variety of issues through sequential-art morality plays.
Many of his tracts accused Roman Catholics, Freemasons, Muslims, and many other groups of murder and conspiracies. His comics have been described by Robert Ito, in Los Angeles magazine, as “equal parts hate literature and fire-and-brimstone sermonizing“.
Chick’s views have been spread mostly through the tracts and, more recently, online. His company, Chick Publications, says it has sold over 750 million tracts, comic books, videos, books, and posters designed to promote Evangelical Protestantism from a Christian fundamentalist perspective. They have been translated into more than 100 languages.
Chick was an Independent Baptist who followed a dispensationalist view of the End Times. He was a believer in the King James Only movement, which posits that every English translation of the Bible more recent than 1611 promotes heresy or immorality.
Amy Carmichael
(December 16, 1867 – January 18, 1951)
He was an Irish Christian missionary in India who opened an orphanage and founded a mission in Dohnavur. She served in India for 55 years and wrote 35 books about her work as a missionary.
Nicholas II
(May 18, 1868 –July 17, 1918)
He was the last reigning Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on March 15, 1917.
The whole Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death[2][3] by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of July 16–17, 1918.
On August 15, 2000, the Russian Orthodox Church announced the canonization of the family for their “humbleness, patience and meekness”. However, reflecting the intense debate preceding the issue, the bishops did not proclaim the Romanovs as martyrs, but passion bearers instead (see Romanov sainthood).
His daughter was
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
(June 18, 1901 – July 17, 1918)
She was the youngest daughter of the Romanov’s. Persistent rumors of her possible escape circulated after her death, fueled by the fact that the location of her burial was unknown during the decades of communist rule.
Anastasia’s supposed escape and possible survival was one of the most popular historical mysteries of the 20th century, provoking many books and films. At least ten women claimed to be her, offering varying stories as to how she had survived. Anna Anderson, the best known Anastasia impostor, first surfaced publicly between 1920 and 1922. She contended that she had feigned death among the bodies of her family and servants, and was able to make her escape with the help of a compassionate guard who noticed she was still breathing and took sympathy upon her. Her legal battle for recognition from 1938 to 1970 continued a lifelong controversy and was the longest running case ever heard by the German courts, where it was officially filed. The final decision of the court was that Anderson had not provided sufficient proof to claim the identity of the grand duchess.
Photo, c. 1914
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
(January 21 1869 –December 30, 1916)
He was a Russian mystic and holy man. He is best known for having befriended the imperial family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, through whom he gained considerable influence in the final years of the Russian Empire.
Saint Josephine Bakhita FDCC
(ca. 1869 – 8 February 1947)
On 29 November 1889, an Italian court ruled that because the British had outlawed slavery in Sudan before Bakhita’s birth and because Italian law had never recognized slavery as legal, Bakhita had never legally been a slave. For the first time in her life, Bakhita found herself in control of her own destiny, and she chose to remain with the Canossians
She was a Canossian religious sister who lived in Italy for 45 years, after having been a slave in Sudan. In 2000, she was declared a saint, the first black woman to receive the honor in the modern era.
Born in 1870’s
Thomas Byles
(February 26, 1870 –April 15, 1912)
He was an English Catholic priest who was a passenger aboard the RMS Titanic on its maiden voyage when it sank after striking an iceberg during the night of 14–15 April 1912. He was reported as being amidst the throng of trapped passengers on the ship’s rear deck in its final moments of descent, audibly praying.
William J. Seymour
(May 2, 1870 – September 28, 1922)
He was a Holiness Pentecostal preacher who initiated the Azusa Street Revival, an influential event in the rise of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements, particularly Holiness Pentecostalism. He was the second of eight children born in an African-American family to emancipated slaves and raised Catholic in extreme poverty in Louisiana.
Charles Fox Parham
(June 4, 1873 – January 29, 1929)
He was an American preacher and evangelist. Together with William J. Seymour, Parham was one of the two central figures in the development and initial spread of early Pentecostalism, known as Holiness Pentecostalism. It was Parham who associated glossolalia with the baptism in the Holy Spirit, a theological connection crucial to the emergence of Pentecostalism as a distinct movement. Parham was the first preacher to articulate Pentecostalism’s distinctive doctrine of evidential tongues, and to expand the movement.
Hilaire Belloc
(July 27,1870 –July 16,1953)
He was a French-English writer, politician, and historian. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong effect on his works.
Belloc became a naturalised British subject in 1902 while retaining his French citizenship. While attending Oxford University, he served as President of the Oxford Union. From 1906 to 1910, he served as one of the few openly Catholic members of the British Parliament.
Belloc was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds. He was also a close friend and collaborator of G. K. Chesterton. George Bernard Shaw, a friend and frequent debate opponent of both Belloc and Chesterton, dubbed the pair the “Chesterbelloc”.
Belloc’s writings encompassed religious poetry and comic verse for children. His widely sold Cautionary Tales for Children included “Jim, who ran away from his nurse, and was eaten by a lion” and “Matilda, who told lies and was burned to death”. He wrote historical biographies and numerous travel works, including The Path to Rome (1902).
The Bad Child’s Book Of Beasts (1896)
More Beasts for Worse Children (1897)
Cautionary Tales for Children (1907)
How The Reformation Happened (1928)
Blessed Solanus Casey (Francis)
(November 25, 1870 – July 31, 1957)
He was an American religious priest of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He was known during his lifetime as a healer for his great faith and his abilities as a spiritual counselor, but especially for his great attention to the sick, for whom he celebrated special Masses. The friar was much sought-after and revered, especially in Detroit, where he resided. He was also a noted lover of the violin, a trait he shared with his eponym, Saint Francis Solanus.
In 1889 Bernard Casey Jr. was a conductor on one of the first electric street cars in Stillwater, Minnesota, around 1889. (Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society)
Robert Hugh Benson
(November 18, 1871 –October 19, 1914)
He was an English Catholic priest and writer. First an Anglican priest, he was received into the Catholic Church in 1903 and ordained therein the next year. He was also a prolific writer of fiction, writing the notable dystopian novel Lord of the World, as well as Come Rack! Come Rope!.
His output encompassed historical, horror and science fiction, contemporary fiction, children’s stories, plays, apologetics, devotional works and articles. He continued his writing career at the same time as he progressed through the hierarchy to become a chamberlain to Pope Pius X in 1911 and gain the title of Monsignor before his death a few years later.
A Mirror of Shalott, (1907)
Lord of the World, (1907)
The Dawn of All, B. (1911)
Come Rack! Come Rope! (1912)
Oddsfish! (1914)
Dr. St. Thérèse of Lisieux OCD
(January 2, 1873 – September 30, 1897)
The end of Doctor Saint Thérèse of Lisieux OCD’s (January 2, 1873 – September 30, 1897) time as a postulant arrived on the January 10, 1889, with her taking of the habit. From that time she wore the “rough homespun and brown scapular, white wimple and veil, leather belt with rosary, woollen ‘stockings’, rope sandals”. Both her parents were devout Catholics who would eventually become the first (and to date only) married couple canonized together by the Roman Catholic Church (by Pope Francis in 2015)
Oswald Chambers
(July 24, 1874 –November 15, 1917)
My Utmost for His Highest (1924)
Henry Grey Graham
(March 8, 1874 – December 5, 1959)
He was a Scottish Catholic clergyman and author. He wrote several books including Where We Got the Bible: Our Debt to the Catholic Church (1911).
G. K. Chesterton
(May 29, 1874 –June 14,1936)
He was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic.
Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and wrote on apologetics, such as his works Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an orthodox Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting from high church Anglicanism.
Moses M. Beachy
(December 3, 1874 – July 7, 1946)
He was the founding bishop of the Beachy Amish Mennonite churches in 1927 and a former bishop in the Old Order Amish churches.
Albert Schweitzer,
(January 14, 1875 – 4 September 4, 1965)
He was an Alsatian polymath. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. A Lutheran minister, Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of the historical Jesus as depicted by the historical-critical method current at this time, as well as the traditional Christian view. His contributions to the interpretation of Pauline Christianity concern the role of Paul‘s mysticism of “being in Christ” as primary and the doctrine of justification by faith as secondary.He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of “Reverence for Life“, becoming the eighth Frenchman to be awarded that prize. His philosophy was expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon). As a music scholar and organist, he studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced the Organ Reform Movement (Orgelbewegung).
Aleister Crowley
(October 12, 1875 – December 1, 1947)
He was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, philosopher, political theorist, novelist, mountaineer, and painter. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century. A prolific writer, he published widely over the course of his life.
Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama
(February 12, 1876 –December 17, 1933)
He was the 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet, enthroned during a turbulent modern era. He presided during the Collapse of the Qing Dynasty, and is referred to as “the Great Thirteenth”, responsible for redeclaring Tibet’s national independence, and for his national reform and modernization initiatives. In 1878, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama.
St.Gemma Galgani
(March 12, 1878 – April 11, 1903: Aged 25)
She was an Italian mystic, venerated as a saint She in the Catholic Church since 1940. She has been called the “daughter of the Passion” because of her profound imitation of the Passion of Christ. She is especially venerated in the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus (Passionists).
1889-1893 –Gemma attends School run by the Zitine Sisters. Among her teachers was Venerable Elena Guerra. Gemma later uses weekly the Holy Hour book written by her.
David Eichorn’s Parents
Joseph Eichhorn (1878-1964)
+ Anna Eichhorn (Zivi) (1881-1940)
= David Max Eichhorn
(January 6, 1906 – July 16, 1986)
He was an American rabbi of Reform Judaism, a director for Hillel, a chaplain in the Army, an author, and an authority within Reform Judaism on the subjects of interfaith marriage and religious conversion.
Yuanying
(1878 – September 12, 1953)
He was a Chinese Chan Buddhist master and the first Venerable Master of the Buddhist Association of China
At the age of 10, he aspired to become a Buddhist monk, but his uncle did not approve. He turned 11 in 1889.
The Buddhist Association of China was founded on 30 May 1953, and was disbanded in the late 1960s during the Cultural Revolution, then reactivated following the end of that period.
Born in 1880’s
Elizabeth of the Trinity
(July 18, 1880 –November 9, 1906)
She was a French Discalced Carmelite, a mystic, and a spiritual writer. She was known for the depth of her spiritual growth as a Carmelite as well as bleak periods in which her religious calling was perceived to be unsure according to those around her; she however was acknowledged for her persistence in pursuing the will of God and in devoting herself to the charism of the Carmelites.
In a letter addressed to her mother, on January 1, 1889, Elizabeth clearly demonstrates this desire to conquer her own temperament: “In wishing you a happy New Year, I have the joy of promising you that I will be well behaved and obedient; that I will no longer give you reason to be angry; I will not cry anymore and I will be an exemplary little girl so that you will be pleased with everything.”Months later, in another letter to her mother, she wrote: “I hope to soon have the happiness of making my First Communion; for this reason I will improve my behaviour still more, because I asked Our Lord God to make me better.”
Harry Price
(January 17, 1881 –March 29, 1948)
He was a British psychic researcher and author, who gained public prominence for his investigations into psychical phenomena and exposing fraudulent spiritualist mediums. He is best known for his well-publicised investigation of the purportedly haunted Borley Rectory in Essex, England.
Saint Titus Brandsma
(February 23, 1881 –July 26, 1942)
He was a Dutch Carmelite friar, Catholic priest and professor of philosophy. Brandsma was vehemently opposed to Nazi ideology and spoke out against it many times before the Second World War. He was imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp, where he was murdered.
Blessed James Alberione
(April 4, 1884 –November 26, 1971)
He was an Italian Catholic priest, and the founder of the Society of St. Paul, of the Daughters of St. Paul, of the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master, of the Sisters of Jesus the Good Shepherd, of the Sisters of Mary Queen of the Apostles, and other religious institutes, which form the Pauline Family. The first two groups are best known for promoting the Catholic faith through various forms of modern media.
Romano Guardini
(February 17, 1885 – 1 October 1968)
He was an Italian, naturalized German Catholic priest, philosopher and theologian. As a philosopher he founded no “school”, but his intellectual disciples could in some sense be said to include both Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI), and Jorge Mario Bergoglio (later Pope Francis). In the 1980s Bergoglio began work on a doctoral dissertation on Guardini, though he never completed it. Pope Francis cited Guardini’s The End of the Modern World eight times in his 2015 encyclical Laudato si’, more often than any other modern thinker who was not pope.
L. Ron Hubbard’s Parents
Ledora May Waterbury (1885–1959)
+ Harry Ross Hubbard (1886–1975),
= L. Ron Hubbard
(March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986)
He was an American author and the founder of Scientology. A prolific writer of pulp science fiction and fantasy novels in his early career, in 1950 he authored Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and established organizations to promote and practice Dianetics techniques. Hubbard created Scientology in 1952 after losing the intellectual rights to his literature on Dianetics in bankruptcy. He would lead the Church of Scientology, variously described as a cult,[1] a new religious movement, or a business, until his death in 1986.
Father Edward J. Flanagan
(July 13, 1886 – May 15, 1948)
He was an Irish-born priest of the Catholic Church in the United States who served for decades in Nebraska. After serving as a parish priest in the Catholic Diocese of Omaha, he founded the orphanage and educational complex known as Boys Town, located west of the city in what is now Boys Town, Douglas County, Nebraska. In the 21st century, the complex also serves as a center for troubled youth.
Flanagan’s work became widely known, especially after he was played by Spencer Tracy in the movie Boys Town (1938). In the post-World War II era, Flanagan was invited by General Douglas MacArthur to visit Japan and Korea, and later Austria and Germany, to give him advice about improving conditions for children in the occupied countries.
Karl Barth
(May 10, 1886 – December 10, 1968)
He was a Swiss Reformed theologian. Barth is best known for his commentary The Epistle to the Romans, his involvement in the Confessing Church, including his authorship (except for a single phrase) of the Barmen Declaration and especially his unfinished multi-volume theological summa the Church Dogmatics (published between 1932–1967). Barth’s influence expanded well beyond the academic realm to mainstream culture, leading him to be featured on the cover of Time on 20 April 1962.
Saint Padre Pio
(May 25, 1887 – 23 September 1968)
He was an Italian Capuchin friar, priest, stigmatist, and mystic.
Ronald Knox
(February 17, 1888 – August 24, 1957)
He is remembered for his “Ten Commandments” for detective stories, which sought to codify a form of crime fiction in which the reader may participate by attempting to find a solution to the mystery before the fictional detective reveals it.
Saint José María Robles Hurtado,
(May 3, 1888 – June 26, 1927)
He was a Mexican priest and one of several priests martyred during the Cristero War.
Blessed Anacleto González Flores
(July 13, 1888 – April 1, 1927)
He was a Mexican Catholic layman and lawyer who was tortured and executed during the persecution of the Catholic Church under Mexican President Plutarco Elías Calles.
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