Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône, Carrel was raised in a devout Catholic family and was educated by Jesuits, though he no longer practiced his religion when he entered the university.

His mother was a devout woman, so Ampère was also initiated into the Catholic faith along with Enlightenment science.

His father was a shipping merchant who was brought up as a Catholic but had Protestant sympathies, and his mother was a devout Independent unaffiliated with the Anglican Church.

Then in 1743 he further alienated his father by marrying Antoinette Champion ( 1710 – 1796 ), a devout Roman Catholic.

Mary, a devout Catholic, was determined to crush the Protestant faith in which Elizabeth had been educated, and she ordered that everyone attend Catholic Mass ; Elizabeth had to outwardly conform.

Dollfuss, who was raised as a devout Roman Catholic, was shortly in seminary before deciding to study law at the University of Vienna and then economics at the University of Berlin.

Although he was not a particularly devout Catholic, he " regularly used Catholic images and themes his films ".

His father was Gebhard Himmler, a teacher, and his mother was Anna Maria Himmler ( née Heyder ), a devout Roman Catholic.

Like the majority of Belgians at that time, his family belonged to the Roman Catholic Church, though were not particularly devout.

Among these was the devout Catholic Antonín Dvořák, the closest Brahms ever came to having a protégé.

A devout Catholic, he was a leading Centre Party politician in the Weimar Republic, he served as Mayor of Cologne ( 1917 – 1933 ) and president of the Prussian State Council ( 1922 – 1933 ).

As a devout Catholic, he joined the Centre Party in 1906 and was elected to Cologne's city council in the same year.

Louis was a devout Catholic, and he built the Sainte-Chapelle (" Holy Chapel "), located within the royal palace complex ( now the Paris Hall of Justice ), on the Île de la Cité in the centre of Paris.

Her mother, Anne ( Purcell ) Higgins, was a devout Catholic who went through 18 pregnancies ( with 11 live births ) in 22 years before dying at age 50 of tuberculosis and cervical cancer.

Petrarch was a devout Catholic and did not see a conflict between realizing humanity's potential and having religious faith.

He claimed to be a devout Roman Catholic, claiming that one of the purposes of the Meditations was to defend the Christian faith.

Tolkien's love of myths and devout Catholic faith came together in his assertion that mythology is the divine echo of " the Truth ".

Laennec was a devout Catholic.

His mother, a devout Catholic from Corscia, was once a professional singer, while his father, an assimilated Jew who had converted to Protestantism, ran a successful wine-export business.

In The Tudors, More is portrayed as a peaceful man, as well as a devout Roman Catholic and loving family patriarch.

However, several Protestant princes feared the Emperor, a devout Catholic, intended to keep Jülich-Cleves-Berg for himself to prevent the United Duchies falling into Protestant hands.

This extended to Edward's elder sister, the daughter of Catherine of Aragon, Mary Tudor, who was a pious and devout Catholic.

Leigh was born Vivian Mary Hartley in the campus of St. Paul's School, Darjeeling, Bengal, India ( British India ), to Ernest Hartley, an English officer in the Indian Cavalry, and Gertrude Mary Robinson Yackjee ( 1888-1972 ), a devout Roman Catholic of Irish and Armenian descent, the daughter of Mary I. Robinson and John G. Yackjee, who wed in 1872.

As Mrs. Letch Feeley, was it any wonder that I, once the social arbiter of Filmdom, was excluded from the smart entertainments given by the Astaires, the Coopers, the Gables, the Colmans, the Rathbones, the Taylors, the Thalbergs and such devout, closely knit families as the Barrymores and the Crosbys??

Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.

This was connected to a devout religiosity that declared depiction of living things in art an immoral rivalry to Allah's creation.

Among these gifts was reputed to be a piece of the true cross, a true treasure for the devout Saxon king.

Ānanda was one of the principal disciples and a devout attendant of the Buddha.

Even Houbraken recalled that Cuyp was a devout Calvinist and the fact that when he died, there were no paintings of other artists found in his home.

Jabarah remembered Haznawi specifically, saying that he was " very devout and could recite the entire Koran from memory ".

As a young man he produced a manuscript titled " Why I have discarded Evolution ", causing some scholars to describe him as a devout Methodist Episcopalian, who was impressed with fundamentalism, and perhaps supportive of creationism.

Associated perhaps initially with Jesus People and the Christian counterculture, born again came to refer to a conversion experience, accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior in order to be saved from Hell and given eternal life with God in Heaven, and was increasingly used as a term to identify devout believers.

His father, Walter A. Rogers, was a civil engineer and his mother, Julia M. Cushing, was a housewife and devout Pentecostal Christian.

While he was a devout Muslim who could recite the Koran, he was opposed to fanaticism and joked freely about Islam.

Later she would become a close friend with the devout Françoise d ' Aubigné, better known as Madame de Maintenon, the lady-in-waiting who would later become the second wife of Louis XIV.

His only surviving child, Damaris, a devout and talented woman, became the second wife of Sir Francis Masham.

A devout Catholic, Mary became, in 1673, the second wife of James, Duke of York, who later succeeded his older brother Charles II as King James II.

During both his first marriage to Agnes of Aquitaine and his second marriage to Constance of Burgundy, both of whom were devout Roman Catholics, king Alfonso VI of Castile was under constant pressure to eradicate the Mozarab rite.

He was born a Catholic and became increasingly devout in middle life, after the loss in 1838 of his eldest son by his second marriage ( to Rebecca Adcock ) and then, in the 1850s, both the children of his first marriage ( to Mary Hutchinson, who had died in childbirth ).

One of these, " Fiddler " Fynes, regularly attended church services and was an essentially conventional Christian for that period, whilst the second, John Worsdale of Lincoln, was similarly devout but was unconventional in that he rejected the need for a professional clergy.

Sternhartz was a devout, God-fearing Jew who earned the respect of others, including the non-Jewish Russian authorities in the town of Tulchyn ( located nine miles km southwest of Bratslav ), where he lived with his second wife and family.