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Eugen Liebendörfer – German physician and Basel missionary to India. James Long – Church Missionary Society missionary. Joshua Marshman. Henry Martyn – Church Missionary Society missionary. Arthur Margoschis – Nazareth, Tamil Nadu – SPG missionary. Julia Lore McGrew - medical missionary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of ...
Born. (1761-08-17) 17 August 1761. Paulerspury, England. Died. 9 June 1834 (1834-06-09) (aged 72) Serampore, Bengal Presidency, British India. Signature. William Carey (17 August 1761 – 9 June 1834) was an English Christian missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, social reformer and cultural anthropologist who founded the ...
Born. (1867-12-16) 16 December 1867 Millisle, County Down, Ireland. Died. 18 January 1951 (1951-01-18) (aged 83) Dohnavur, Tamil Nadu, India. Venerated in. Anglican Communion. Feast. 18 January. Amy Beatrice Carmichael (16 December 1867 – 18 January 1951) was an Irish Christian missionary in India who opened an orphanage and founded a mission ...
Mother Teresa. Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒi.u]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa, [a] was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, [b] she was raised ...
In India's 25th Test match, nearly 20 years after India achieved Test status, he led India to its first ever Test cricket win (and the only victory under his captaincy) in 1951–52 against England at Madras. Tinu Yohannan, Former Indian cricketer from Kerala. Roger Binny, Indian cricketer, part of Indian squad that won the 1983 Cricket World ...
Sundar Singh was birthed into a Sikh [2] [3] family in the village of Rampur (near Doraha), Ludhiana district (Punjab state), in northern India.Singh's mother took him to sit at the feet of a Hindu sadhu, an ascetic holy man, who lived in the jungle some miles away, while also sending him to Ewing Christian High School, Ludhiana, to learn English.
Charles Freer Andrews. Charles Freer Andrews (12 February 1871 – 5 April 1940) was an Anglican priest and Christian missionary, educator and social reformer, and an activist for Indian independence. He became a close friend of Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi and identified with the Indian liberation struggle.
Swami Shilananda (born Pere Julià Mayol; 17 June 1925 – 15 December 2022 [1]) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary who lived in India from 1948 to 2017. He spent most of his missionary life in and around Nashik, in Maharashtra. He founded the Sanjivan Ashram at Lonarwadi, Sinnar, in the State of Maharashtra, India.