person of exceptional holiness | Italian philosopher who used Copernican principles to develop a pantheistic monistic philosophy; condemned for heresy by the Inquisition and burned at the stake (1548-1600) |
model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | (Roman Catholic Church) a French cleric (born in Germany) who founded the Carthusian order in 1084 (1032-1101) |
a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization | German pope from 1049 to 1054 whose papacy was the beginning of papal reforms in the 11th century (1002-1054) |