Some Famous Benedictine Oblates Throughout History

• St. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury & martyr (†1170)


• St. Thomas Aquinas, child Oblate at Monte Cassino (†1274)


• St. Thomas More, lawyer, martyr (†1535)


• St. Oliver Plunkett (†1681), Archbishop of Armagh, martyr


• Elena Cornaro Piscopia (†1684), scholar, philosopher, musician and first women to receive a doctorate


• Joris-Karl Huysmans, writer (†1907)


• Dorothy Day, social activist (†1980)


• Jacques and Raissa Maritain (†1973/1960), philosophers


• Walker Percy, Southern American novelist (†1990)


• Margaret Rumer Godden, English author (†1998)