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Converts to Christ and the Faith
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  • Mortimer Adler, d. 2001
  • Karl Stern, d. 1975
  • Elizabeth Seton, d. 1821
  • Anne Rice
  • Dorothy Day, d. 1980
  • Andre Frossard, d. 1995
  • Israel Zolli, d. 1956
  • Mark Bavaro
  • Walker Percy, d. 1990
  • Bernard Nathanson
  • Charles de Foucauld, d. 1916
  • Saint Augustine, d. 430
  • Saint Francis, d. 1226
  • Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, d. 1926
  • Joseph Pearce
  • Malcolm Muggeridge, d. 1990
  • Alexander (Aleksandr) Solzhenitsyn, d. 2008
  • Edith Stein, d. 1942
  • Thomas Merton, d. 1968
  • Dave Brubeck
  • G.K. Chesteron, d. 1936
  • Hank Aaron
  • Graham Greene, d. 1991
  • Jacques & Raissa Maritain, d. 1973
  • Ellen Tarry
  • Robert Bork
  • Kit Carson, d. 1868
  • Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, d. 2007
  • Cardinal Lustiger of Paris, d. 2007
  • Louis Budenz, d. 1972
  • Francis Collins
  • C.S. Lewis, d. 1963
      
 

Most of the names in this project are twentieth and twenty-first century personalities. [I've put the date of death next to the names in the column to the left to help you, no date means they're still alive]   If you are researching a saint, try also this list of resources.


M. Bavaro

E. Seton

A. Rice
REFERENCE

20th and 21st Century Figures

  • Dictionary of World Biography: The Twentieth Century | REF 920.02 DIC
  • Dictionary of American Biography | REF 920.03 DIC
  • Dictionary of World Biography | REF 920.02 DIC
  • American National Biography | REF 920.073 AME
  • Current Biography Yearbook | REF 920.03 CUR (particularly good for those who are still living)
  • Great Lives from History:  20th Century | REF 920 GRE
  • New Catholic Encyclopedia | REF 282.03 NEW

 

 

18th & 19th Century Figures

  • New Catholic Encyclopedia | REF 282.03 NEW
  • Great Lives from History:  18th Century | REF 920 GRE
  • Great Lives from History:  19th Century | REF 920 GRE

 

CIRCULATING BOOKS

Try also a library catalog search with your person's name.

>>Click here<< for a recommended resource list. 

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

Using the recommended databases below, search for the name of your convert, but also consider adding an additional defining word like "convert," "conversion," "catholic," "Catholicism," or "christianity" to find accounts of their path to faith.  e.g. Mortimer Adler AND christianity


H. Aaron


D. Brubeck

A. Solzhenitsyn
 
TipTry narrowing to obits 1857-  for year of death
or use the "Famous Dead People" feature.
ProQuest is a general article and reference database.
Student Resource Center: Gold
Tip: Contains Encyclopedia of World Biography