Catholic
- Ignatius of Antioch (35–107) (also Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Polycarp (69–155) (also the Eastern Orthodox Church)
- John Chrysostom (347–407) (also Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153)
- Henry of Lausanne d. 1148, heretical, opposed by Bernard
- John Bromyard (died c. 1352)
- Johannes Tauler (1300–1361), German (Dominican) mystic
- Jan Huss (1369–1415) (condemned and executed as a heretic)
- Bernardino of Siena (1380–1444), Franciscan
- Giovanni da Capistrano (1386–1456), Franciscan
- James of the Marches (1391–1476), Franciscan
- Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), Dominican, also executed as a heretic
- Petrus Canisius (1521–1597), Jesuit preacher of the Counter-Reformation in the German-speaking lands
- Hortensio Félix Paravicino, Trinitarian brother, preacher to the court Philip II of Spain, and poet
- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet (1627–1704), whose sermons are classics of French prose
- Louis Bourdaloue (1632–1704) Jesuit preacher of the age of Louis XIV
- Jean Baptiste Massillon (1663–1742), Oratorian
- John Henry Newman (1801–1890), converted from Anglicanism
- Bernard Vaughan SJ (1847–1922)
- Charles Coughlin (1891–1975)
- Bishop Fulton Sheen (1895–1975)
- Pope John Paul II, (1920–2005)
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“A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Through my fault, my most grievous fault.
[Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.]”
—Missal, The. The Ordinary of the Mass.
Missal is book of prayers and rites used to celebrate the Roman Catholic mass during the year.
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