Founders of Christian monasteries

Roman Catholic saint (1515-1582)

founder of Christian monasticism, founder of the Benedictine order (480–547)

Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 485 – c. 585), commonly known as Cassiodorus (), was a Roman statesman, scholar, and writer who served in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. Senator was part of his surname, not his rank. In his later years, he devoted himself to Christian learning and founded the Vivarium monastery, where he worked extensively during the final decades of his life.

Byzantine Emperor from 1282 to 1328

emperor of Serbia 1331–1355

first archbishop of Serbs

Christian monk and theologian

Egyptian saint

Saint Columbanus (; 543 – 21 November 615) was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries after 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy.

Grand Prince of Serbia, founder of the Nemanjić dynasty

King of Serbia from 1282 to 1321

King of Serbia from 1322 to 1331

King of Serbia

Margrave of Austria

Georgian saint

Bulgarian writer & missionary

Duke of Aquitaine

King of Serbia

Byzantine monk

Byzantine noble

Eastern Orthodox theologian

Æthelthryth (or Æðelþryð or Æþelðryþe; 4 March 63623 June 679) was an East Anglian princess, a Fenland and Northumbrian queen and Abbess of Ely. She is an Anglo-Saxon saint, and is also known as Etheldreda or Audrey, especially in religious contexts. She was a daughter of Anna, King of East Anglia, and her siblings were Wendreda and Seaxburh of Ely, both of whom eventually retired from secular life and founded abbeys. Æthelthryth was "in turns, princess, wife, queen, nun and abbess, enjoying every possible position of power a woman could claim in early Anglo-Saxon England".

Eastern Orthodox hymnographer

Ruler of thessaly

Byzantine general

Georgian monk

Georgian general and saint

priest

Byzantine saint

Serbian general

Beloš (; or Belus; fl. 1141–1163), was a Serbian prince and Hungarian palatine who served as the regent of Hungary from 1141 until 1146, alongside his sister Helena, mother of the infant King Géza II. Beloš held the title of duke (dux), and ban of Croatia from 1146 until 1157 and briefly in 1163. Beloš, as a member of the Serbian Vukanović dynasty, also briefly ruled his patrimony as the Grand Prince of Serbia in 1162. He lived during a period of Serbian-Hungarian alliance, amid a growing threat from the Byzantines, who had earlier been the overlords of Serbia.

Prince of Wallachia

Benedictine Monk (1906–1993)

Byzantine saint

Serbian nobleman

Prince of Wallachia

byzantine monk and stylite

Byzantine admiral

French monk

Roman politician, consul 454 AD

Roman Catholic archbishop

9th-century Byzantine general

Byzantine aristocrat and general

Georgian saint

bishop

Serbian prince

French priest

Byzantine monk

German priest (1641-1729)

Palatine of Hungary

Georgian saint

saint

Georgian saint

philosopher and teolog

King of the Isles, Lord of Argyll, Lord of Kinytre