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Desmond Tutu Summary
Desmond Tutu was a South African Anglican cleric who in 1984 received the Nobel Prize for Peace for his role in the opposition to apartheid in South Africa. (Read Desmond Tutu’s Britannica entry on the South African truth commission.) Tutu was born of Xhosa and Tswana parents and was educated in
Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey Summary
Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey was a cardinal and statesman who dominated the government of England’s King Henry VIII from 1515 to 1529. His unpopularity contributed, upon his downfall, to the anticlerical reaction that was a factor in the English Reformation. The son of a butcher of Ipswich, Wolsey was
Saint Boniface Summary
Saint Boniface ; feast day June 5) was an English missionary and reformer, often called the apostle of Germany for his role in the Christianization of that country. Boniface set the church in Germany on a firm course of undeviating piety and irreproachable conduct. In his letters and in the
St. John Chrysostom Summary
St. John Chrysostom ; Western feast day September 13; Eastern feast day November 13) was an early Church Father, biblical interpreter, and archbishop of Constantinople. The zeal and clarity of his preaching, which appealed especially to the common people, earned him the Greek surname meaning