Granville Sharp
Pioneering British abolitionist civil servant who financed and litigated the landmark 1772 Somerset v Stewart case ruling slavery illegal on English soil, co-founding the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
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Pioneering British abolitionist civil servant who financed and litigated the landmark 1772 Somerset v Stewart case ruling slavery illegal on English soil, co-founding the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
Pรจre fondateur des รtats-Unis, signataire de la Dรฉclaration d'indรฉpendance, mรฉdecin hรฉroรฏque de l'รฉpidรฉmie de 1793 et pรจre de la psychiatrie amรฉricaine.
French-born American Quaker educator and philosopher hailed as the 'Father of Atlantic Abolitionism', who founded the first public school for Black children in Philadelphia and convinced American and British Quakers to outlaw slavery.
Prรฉdicateur quaker itinรฉrant amรฉricain, artisan majeur de l'abandon de l'esclavage par la Sociรฉtรฉ des Amis et pionnier de la justice รฉconomique.
Fondateur de la province de Pennsylvanie, pionnier de la libertรฉ religieuse, de la dรฉmocratie participative et des traitรฉs de paix รฉquitables avec les Amรฉrindiens.
Fondateur de la Sociรฉtรฉ religieuse des Amis (Quakers), prรฉcurseur de l'รฉgalitรฉ spirituelle absolue et du tรฉmoignage pacifiste de non-violence.
Prรชtre franรงais, figure tutรฉlaire de la charitรฉ catholique organisรฉe, fondateur de la Congrรฉgation de la Mission (Lazaristes) et cofondateur des Filles de la Charitรฉ.
Religieuse franรงaise et sainte, cofondatrice avec Vincent de Paul des Filles de la Charitรฉ, proclamรฉe sainte patronne des travailleurs sociaux.
Prรชtre jรฉsuite catalan, autoproclamรฉ ยซ esclave des esclaves pour toujours ยป, qui soigna et dรฉfendit plus de 300 000 captifs africains dรฉportรฉs ร Carthagรจne des Indes.
Prรชtre italien et saint, fondateur de l'Ordre des Camilliens, inventeur des premiรจres ambulances de guerre et pionnier de l'utilisation de la croix rouge sur les champs de bataille.
Influential Saadian Queen Mother, wife of Mohammed ash-Sheikh and mother of Ahmad al-Mansur, revered as 'Al-Hurra' for her extensive public works, schools, bridges, and care for the impoverished.
Franciscan friar and visionary linguist acclaimed as the 'First Anthropologist of the Americas', who spent sixty years documenting Nahua culture, religion, and botany in the twelve-volume bilingual Florentine Codex.
Fondateur portugais de l'Ordre des Frรจres Hospitaliers de Saint-Jean-de-Dieu, rรฉvolutionnaire des soins hospitaliers et du traitement digne des malades mentaux.
Renaissance Dominican theologian and jurist of the School of Salamanca whose lectures 'De Indis' laid the foundations of modern international law, human rights, and the sovereign equality of indigenous peoples.
Spanish Dominican friar who delivered the historic Advent sermon of 1511 on Hispaniola, the first public denunciation of European mistreatment and enslavement of indigenous peoples in the New World.
Revered 13th-century Sufi mystic and humanitarian saint of Tunis, disciple of Abu Said al-Baji and Shadhili master, celebrated for her radical asceticism, public preaching, and defense of the impoverished.
Princesse royale de Hongrie et sainte mรฉdiรฉvale, qui renonรงa ร toute gloire princiรจre pour construire un hรดpital ร Marbourg et soigner personnellement les plus misรฉrables.
The supreme patron saint of Marrakech among the Seven Saints, whose mystical philosophy centered entirely on radical charity, feeding the poor, and social solidarity.