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Casimir Jagiellon was born in 1458 as the third of thirteen children to Poland's King Casimir IV and his wife Elizabeth of Austria. The priest and historian John Dlugosz, who taught him and some of...
In northern Italy, Conrad was born into an aristocratic family. He wed Euphrosyne, a nobleman's daughter. One day while Conrad was hunting, he gave his servants instructions to start a f...
John Bosco, whose other names include Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco and Don Bosco, was born on August 16, 1815, in Becchi, Italy. His birth occurred shortly after the region was devastated by the Napol...