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Catherine was born to a cloth dyer in Siena, Italy, in 1347, the twenty-third of twenty-six children, most of whom didn’t survive infancy. It was a tough time and place...

One Christian hero who I am privileged to have met is Richard Wurmbrand. His story, told in Tortured for Christ, impacted me deeply as a young student. Wurmbrand was born in...

Isaac Watts was born into a Christian family in 1674 in Southampton. His father was a nonconformist; one of many believers who had refused to join Charles II’s single national...

Phoebe Palmer was one of the foremost Christian leaders of the 19th century and someone whose influence continues to the present day. Born in New York in 1807, Phoebe Worrall...

Two figures dominated the evangelical church of Britain in the late nineteenth century: the nonconformist preacher Charles Spurgeon and the Anglican preacher, writer and bishop, John Charles Ryle. Ryle was...

Few people have achieved as much for the kingdom of God in as little time as Henry Martyn, missionary and Bible translator, whose life ended when he was only thirty-one....

Mahalia was born in 1911 to poor, unmarried parents in New Orleans. The bitter memory of slavery still lingered amongst African-Americans: all Mahalia’s grandparents had been born slaves. Although brought...

Evan Roberts was at the heart of the 1904 revival in Wales. From the 1730s, Wales had become dominated by a nonconformist ‘chapel culture’ that emphasised preaching and theological correctness...

John Wycliffe was born in the late 1320s in Yorkshire and became a student at Oxford University in 1346. There he witnessed the horrifying epidemic of the Black Death which,...

Helen Roseveare was born in 1925 in Hertfordshire, England, and went to Cambridge University to study medicine at the end of the Second World War. There she began to attend...

Athlete and missionary Eric Liddell had been largely forgotten until the 1981 film Chariots of Fire reminded the world of him. Liddell was born in China to Scottish missionaries in 1902. At...

There are very few individuals from the 19th century whose names are widely known today. One exception is that of Thomas Barnardo whose work with needy children continues. Barnardo was...