Joseph Addison (1672-1719) was the son of Reverend Lancelot Addison, Dean of Lichfield, England. He was educated at Oxford and developed poetic talent at an early age.
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Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626) was born near London. Andrewes was an eloquent Anglican preacher who was ordained in 1580 after graduating from Cambridge.
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Anselm (1033-1109) was born in northern Italy. Anselm moved to England after the death of his mother. He entered a monastery and later became archbishop of Canterbury.
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Anthony (c. 251-356), the founder of Christian monasticism, was born into a wealthy family in Egypt. After his parents died when he was 18 he became a hermit.
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Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), perhaps the greatest of the medieval scholars, was born near Naples and studied at the Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino.
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