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.

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

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

As a boy, Pei was very close to his mother, a devout Buddhist who was recognized for her skills as a flautist.

Jain ideas and practices powerfully influenced Gandhi, particularly through his mother, who was a devout Jain.

Over time, Weber would also be significantly affected by the marital tension between his father, " a man who enjoyed earthly pleasures ," and his mother, a devout Calvinist " who sought to lead an ascetic life.

Raised a devout Christian by her mother, Murray had initially become a Sunday School teacher in order to preach the faith.

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.

His mother, a devout Methodist, was a midwife who later obtained her medical license.

His foster mother, Maria Ewing, who was of Irish ancestry, was a devout Catholic.

Like her mother, Ellen Ewing Sherman was a devout Roman Catholic, and the Shermans ' eight children were reared in that faith.

His mother was a devout Roman Catholic of Irish descent, and he attended Stonyhurst College, the pre-eminent English Jesuit school.

John's mother was a devout Southern Baptist, who regularly attended the Milport Chapel Church along with her children, where John had perfect attendance.

When sales jobs grew scarce during World War I, Long attended seminary classes at Oklahoma Baptist University at the urging of his mother, a devout Baptist.

His mother, a devout Catholic who moved to New Zealand from Ireland at the age of two, maintained a religious influence over the family.

His devout Catholic mother raised him according to the old curriculum of Austria-Hungary, preparing him to become a Catholic monarch.

Her mother, a devout Christian Scientist, refused to take her to a doctor.

Although her mother was a devout Catholic, Reitsch and her siblings were brought up in the Protestant religion of their father, an ophthalmologist who wanted her to become a doctor.

His mother, Mary, Queen of Scots ( executed in 1587 for treason ) had been a devout Catholic, and James's attitude appeared moderate, even tolerant towards Catholics.

His father Isaac, a lawyer from Philadelphia, and his mother, Mary Shewell, a merchant's daughter and a devout Quaker, had been forced to come to Britain because of their loyalist sympathies during the American War of Independence.

Goodman states, " Madame Geoffrin made a daring step for a devout girl when, at the age of eighteen, but already a wife and mother, she began to frequent the afternoon gatherings at the home of Madame de Tencin.

His mother, the former Mary Anne Toohey ( herself the daughter of another Irish immigrant ) raised him as a devout Roman Catholic.

Born Mildred Rinker in Tekoa, Washington, her mother, Josephine, was an enrolled member of the Coeur d ' Alene Tribe and a devout Roman Catholic.

An abbey ( from Latin abbatia, derived from Latin language abbatia, from Latin abbās, derived from Aramaic language abba, " father ") is a Catholic monastery or convent, under the authority of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serves as the spiritual father or mother of the community.

Since the break the Church of England, an established national church, still considers itself part of the broader Western Catholic tradition as well as being the " mother church " of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

His father, Béla Sr., considered himself thoroughly Hungarian, because on his father's side the Bartók family was a Hungarian lower noble family, originating from Borsod county ( Móser 2006a, 44 ; Bartók 1981, 13 ), though his mother was from a Roman Catholic Serbian family ( Bayley 2001, 16 ).

His father died when he was but two years of age ; and when, on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, the authorities took steps to have him educated in the Roman Catholic faith, his mother contrived his escape.

His mother took this conversion seriously and was dedicated to raising Fritz as a Catholic.

Lang's fears would be realized following his departure from Austria, as under the Nuremburg Laws he would be identified as a Jew even though his mother was a converted Roman Catholic, and he was raised as such.

His mother, Ida Barbiani ( 1896 – 1984 ), came from a bourgeois Catholic family of Roman merchants.

Blaine hoped that he would have more support from Irish Americans than Republicans typically did ; while the Irish were mainly a Democratic constituency in the 19th century, Blaine's mother was Irish Catholic, and he had been supportive of the Irish National Land League while he was Secretary of State.

His father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic.

His mother remarried several years later, to the Catholic Dionis Baynbrigge ( or Denis Bainbridge ) of Scotton, Harrogate.

In Christianity, worship of any other deity besides the Trinity was deemed heretical, but veneration for Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, as an especially privileged saint — though not as a deity — has continued since the beginning of the Catholic faith.

One of Mitchell's biographers, Darden Asbury Pyron, stated that Margaret Mitchell had " an intense relationship " with her mother, who was Roman Catholic.

Simon's father was Jewish and his mother came from a family of Jewish, Lutheran, and Catholic backgrounds.

In 1773 King Frederick II of Prussia, having conquered and annexed Silesia in 1742, had St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin built for the Catholic Upper Silesian immigrants, now the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Berlin.

The Catholic Church teaches that Mary was not the product of a virginal conception herself and was the daughter of a human father and mother, traditionally known by the names of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne.

His father was of German Jewish descent and his mother was Irish Catholic, and Frankenheimer was raised Catholic.

Her father was Czech Jewish and her mother was Austrian-Slovene Catholic — she was Ludwig's maternal grandparent and only non-Jewish grandparent, whose ancestry was Austrian < ref >

Raised by a communist mother and a socialist father in an austere environment, he converted at the age of 30 to the Catholic Church.

In 1989, von Trier's mother revealed on her deathbed that the man who he thought was his father was not, and that she had had a tryst with her former employer, Fritz Michael Hartmann ( 1909 – 2000 ), who descended from a long line of Roman Catholic classical musicians ( his grandfather was Emil Hartmann, his great grandfather J. P. E.

Her mother, Charlotte Hennessy, was Irish Catholic.