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Here are Victor Shepherd's portraits of Christian giants, written for the "Heritage" column of Fellowship Magazine. This collection is available in the recently published book Witnesses to the Word.

Athanasius (296 - 373)

Francis of Assisi (1184 - 1226)

Mother Julian of Norwich (1342 - 1416)

Jan Hus (1369 - 1415)

Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)

Ulrich Zwingli (1484 - 1531)

Thomas Cranmer (1489 - 1556)

William Tyndale (c. 1490 - 1536)

Ignatius Loyola (1491 - 1556)

Menno Simons (1496 - 1561)

Philip Melanchthon (1497 - 1560)

Teresa of Avila (1515 - 1582)

John Calvin (1509 - 1564)

John Knox (c. 1513 - 1572)

Caspar Olevianus & Zacharias Ursinus
(1536 - 1587; 1534 - 1583)

Jacobus Arminius (1560 - 1609)

John Owen (1616 - 1683)

Thomas Watson (c. 1620 - 1686)

John Bunyan (1628 - 1688)

Susanna Annesley (1669 - 1742)

Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748)

Griffith Jones (1683 - 1761)

Jonathan Edwards (1703 - 1758)

John Wesley (1703 - 1791)

Charles Wesley (1707 - 1788)

Women Preachers in Early-Day Methodism

George Whitefield (1714 - 1770)

Thomas Webb (1725 - 1796)

John Newton (1725 - 1807)

John Fletcher (1729 - 1785)

Barbara Heck (1734 - 1804)

Francis Asbury (1745 - 1816)

Thomas Coke (1747 - 1814)

William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833)

Earl of Shaftesbury (1801 - 1885)

Adolphus Egerton Ryerson (1803 - 1882)

Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)

Bishop J.C. Ryle (1816 - 1900)

George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)

William and Catherine Booth
(1829 - 1912; 1829 - 1890)

Charles Hadden Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)

Karl Barth (1886 - 1968)

Martin Niemoeller (1892 - 1984)

Maximilian Kolbe (1894 - 1941)

C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)

William Edwin Sangster (1900 - 1960)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)

Ronald A. Ward (1908 - 1986)

Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)

Jacques Ellul (1912 - 1996)

Thomas Torrance (1913 - )

Oscar Romero (1917 -- 1980)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )

William Stringfellow (1928 - 1985)

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)

Eva Burrows (1929 - )

Thomas Clark Oden (1931 - )