American essayist and critic who contributed to many periodicals such as Scribner’s and the Atlantic Monthly, and has spent much of her time in Europe. Her essays are distinguished for dignity of treatment, a lucid style, and a delicate sense of humor, with not a little irony.
Martyr in the Diocletian Persecution
Martyr in the Diocletian Persecution
Blind song writer who wrote more than 2500 hymns besides many secular songs, cantatas, and lyrical productions of various kinds.
Russian traveler, writer and theosophist
Protestant martyr
English religious author and philanthropist.
Founder of the first hospital in Rome.
One of the forty-eight martyrs of Lyons who perished during the religious persecution under the emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Russian novelist and mystic