Historical figure

Érasme

humaniste l'ayant surnommé le Virgile chrétien

2 saints linked

Battista Spagnoli (the Mantuan)

Feast: March 20th • 16th century

An Italian Carmelite priest, theologian, and Renaissance poet, Battista Spagnoli was nicknamed the 'Christian Virgil' an…

Feast: June 22nd • 16th century

John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, and Thomas More, Chancellor of England, refused to recognize Henry VIII as the supreme…