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Augustine of Hippo
Bishop of Hippo, Augustine became the most influential person of the
Western Church and left many writings to posterity. Learn more about his
life and works
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Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt is considered a unique artist for many reasons, one of
which is that she was a woman who succeeded in what was in the 19th
century a predominantly male profession and because she was the only
American invited to exhibit with a group of independent artists later
known as the Impressionists. Learn more about her life and work
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.
Villanova Mendel Medal Winner
A 1936 Mendel Medal recipient,
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a visionary French Jesuit,
paleontologist, biologist, and philosopher who spent the bulk of his
life trying to integrate religious experience with natural science, most
specifically Christian theology with theories of evolution. Learn more
about his life and work
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Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement, was born in
Brooklyn, New York, on November 8, 1897. After surviving the San
Francisco earthquake in 1906, the Day family moved into a tenement flat
in Chicago’s South Side. It was a big step down in the world made
necessary because John Day was out of work. Day’s understanding of the
shame people feel when they fail in their efforts dated from this time.
Learn more about her life and work
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Michael E. DeBakey
Villanova Mendel Medal Winner
A Mendel Medal recipient in 2001,
Michael Ellis DeBakey is an internationally recognized and respected
physician and surgeon, noted for his pioneering work in the field of
cardiovascular surgery, as well as for his innovative research into this
and other fields of medicine. Learn more about his life and work
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Peter C. Doherty
Villanova Mendel Medal Winner
A Mendel Medal recipient in 2000,
Peter C. Doherty won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996.
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Thomas Eakins
Born in Philadelphia in 1844, Thomas Eakins is one of America’s few
indisputably great painters. Learn more about his life and work
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John Hope Franklin
John Hope Franklin is the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History
and for seven years was Professor of Legal History in the Law School at
Duke University. Learn more about his life, work, and contributions to
our understanding of U.S. history
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