Saint Albert of Espain
Born near Tournai, Saint Albert lived a life of extreme austerities as a hermit and then as a monk at the Abbey of Crespin in the 12th centu…
Iconographic attribute
ladder
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Saint Emmeran of Poitiers
A 7th-century bishop from Poitiers, Emmeran set out to evangelize Bavaria. Falsely accused of seduction by the daughter of Duke Theodo to pr…
Saint John Climacus (of the Ladder)
Originally from Palestine and a disciple of Gregory of Nazianzus, John Climacus withdrew to Mount Sinai at the age of sixteen. After forty y…