Thomas of Villanova
1488 AD — September 8, 1555 AD
Thomas of Villanova gave away his clothes as a boy and the furnishings of his episcopal palace as archbishop. Charles V exclaimed after hearing him preach: 'This monsignor can move even the stones!' Known as the 'Father of the Poor,' this Augustinian archbishop arrived in Valencia to find a neglected see and proceeded to reform it parish by parish — dying in his patched friar's habit in 1555.