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Bernard

From Our Lady of the Woods website

Bernard was a Cistercian monk who founded the famous abbey at Clairvaux. Bernard and his companions suffered through more than a decade of extreme hardships and deprivations before their community was able to achieve self-sufficiency. During this time, Bernard's health deteriorated - but at the same time, his spirituality grew stronger and he produced writings which would become important to the development of Catholic doctrine. He is credited with having written “O sacred head sore sounded,” “Jesus, the very thought of thee,” and “Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts.”

Dominic

Saint Dominic, portrayed in the Perugia Altarpiece by Fra Angelico.

Dominic founded the Order of Preachers, Dominicans. He is reported to have given up his wealth for a life of poverty. He established friaries, organizing the order, and preaching. The Dominicans give priority to intellectual work, placing a strong emphasis on learning, preaching, teaching, and poverty. Dominic had visited Clairvaux early in his monastic life.

Catherine of Siena

From The Mystics Internet website

Catherine of Siena was the youngest of 25 children of a merchant. At age 6, while walking home, she looked upward and saw “our Lord . . . with St. Peter, St. Paul, and St. John.” She reported that Jesus smiled at her and blessed her. This was the beginning of many images, some of which were “loathsome temptations”. She became a nurse, ministering during plague and leprosy. She arbitrated feuds and heard confessions. She died at age 33.

John & Charles Wesley

. . . Anglican priests, were 13th and 18th children of Samuel Wesley, founders and leaders of the “Methodist” or evangelical revival. "The Method" included everyday use of the Daily Office and frequent participation in Holy Communion. The Wesley brothers were committed to spreading this discipline to unchurched people, especially in the American colonies, employing circuit-riding believers who preached wherever they could find an audience. This practice was uniquely suited to a growing, frontier country of aboriginal peoples and immigrant pioneers. The Wesleys' Method achieved explosive growth in the United States and spread from there to most parts of the world, but both remained Anglicans.

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