Second Millennium - More Great Souls Enter to Lift Humanity from its Primitive Ways

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Second Millennium

More Great Souls Enter to Lift Humanity from its Primitive Ways

Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179

St. Hildegard of Bingen, a German Benedictine abbess, was a brilliant visionary, as well as a composer, philosopher, Christian Mystic, botanist,…

St. Francis of Assisi, 1181-1226

One of the world's most popular and beloved Saints. He is the Patron Saint of animals, ecology and merchants.…

Joan of Arc, 1412-1431

All through recorded history Great Souls have appeared bringing in a nobler vision for humanity. They have been a wonderful example to mankind for the…

Leonardo Da Vinci, 1452-1519

Leonardo da Vinci was the epitome of a Renaissance Man. He had an unquenchable curiosity and inventive imagination. According to art historian Helen…

Paracelsus, 1493-1541

Paracelsus was born in Einsiedeln, Switzerland on either November 11 or December 17, 1493. He was named Phillip von Hohenheim, but later he took the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882

Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on May 25, 1803, in Boston, Massachusetts. After studying at Harvard and teaching for a brief time, Emerson entered the…

Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862

Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. He had two brothers and one sister. He graduated from Harvard University and…

Phillips Brooks, 1835-1893

Born on December 13, 1835, in Boston, Massachusetts, clergyman Phillips Brooks attended Harvard University (1851-55) and taught briefly at the Boston…