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Born: c. 1200 Died: November 15, 1280  Feast day: November 15 Patron saint of: scientists, philosophers, medical technicians At a time when we have so many questions about science, education, and society, reflecting on the life of Albert the Great is like looking into the past to see the future. The intell , ...

Born: July 7, 1207 Died: November 17, 1231 Feast Day: November 17 Patron of: Bakers, death of children, falsely accused, homeless people If your mother-in-law has ever compared you to a jackass, then you know how Saint Elizabeth of Hungary felt. As if feeding the hungry and caring for the sick wasn , ...

Born: November 20, 1918 Died: September 18, 1986 Known as the “joyous revolutionary,” Kent “care[d] about it all.” She was born in 1918, and at age 18 joined the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. She taught at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles and became head of the art department in 1964. “Poets , ...

Born: c. 1797 Died: November 26, 1883 One day when she was nearly 70 years old, the elderly woman announced to her friends in Battle Creek, Michigan that she was setting off for Washington, D.C. “What for?” they asked. “I’m going down there to advise the president,” she said. And that’s how Abraham Lincoln me , ...

Born: November 29, 1898 Died: November 22, 1963 Born in Belfast in 1898 (he always saw himself as Irish), Clive Staples Lewis taught at Oxford and Cambridge in medieval and renaissance English. He belonged to the informal literary society known as the Inklings, which included The Lord of the Rings author J. R. R , ...

Born: 1585 Died: November 30, 1622 Squanto remains trapped by the image we have invented for him. In the romanticized Thanksgiving narrative that began developing a century and a half after the actual feast, Squanto has been reduced to a two-dimensional supporting character that appears only to the degree he sel , ...