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John of God, O.H. (Portuguese: João de Deus; Spanish: Juan de Dios; born João Duarte Cidade [ˈʒwɐ̃w̃ duˈwaɾ.t siˈða.ðɨ]; March 8, 1495 – March 8, 1550) was a Portuguese soldier turned healthcare worker in Spain, whose followers later formed the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God, a Catholic religious institute dedicated to the care of the poor, sick and those with mental ...
João Teixeira de Faria (born 24 June 1942), known also as João de Deus (John of God), is a Brazilian self-proclaimed medium, and self-proclaimed psychic surgeon. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was based in Abadiânia, Brazil , where he ran a spiritual healing center called the Casa de Dom Inácio de Loyola.
John of God (1495–1550) was a Portuguese Catholic saint. John of God, St John of God, or John of God's may also refer to João Teixeira de Faria (born 1942), Brazilian self-proclaimed medium and psychic surgeon; Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God, Catholic religious institute addressing poverty and mental illness
In 1529 Gonzalo married John's mother, Catalina, who was an orphan of a lower class; he was rejected by his family and forced to work with his wife as a weaver. [10] John's father died in 1545, while John was still only around three years old. [ 11 ]
John of Kronstadt or John Iliytch Sergieff [3] (pre-reform Russian: Іоаннъ Кронштадтскій; post-reform Russian: Иоа́нн Кроншта́дтский; 31 October [O.S. 19 October] 1829 – 2 January 1909 [O.S. 20 December 1908]) was a Russian Orthodox archpriest and a member of the Most Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
John's first wife, Isabella of Gloucester, was released from imprisonment in 1214; she remarried twice, and died in 1217. John's second wife, Isabella of Angoulême, left England for Angoulême soon after the King's death; she became a powerful regional leader, but largely abandoned the children that she had borne to John. [233]
Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess, also known as the Deeth of Blaunche the Duchesse, [29] was written in commemoration of Blanche of Lancaster, John of Gaunt's first wife. The poem refers to John and Blanche in allegory as the narrator relates the tale of "A long castel with walles white/Be Seynt Johan, on a ryche hil" (1318–1319) who is ...
John Carson Lennox (born 7 November 1943) is a Northern Irish mathematician, bioethicist, and Christian apologist originally from Northern Ireland. He has written many books on religion, ethics, the relationship between science and God (like his books, Has Science Buried God and Can Science Explain Everything), and has had public debates with atheists including Richard Dawkins and Christopher ...