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Dr. von Hildebrand spent decades championing the legacy of her husband, whom Pope Pius XII reputedly called “the twentieth-century Doctor of the Church.”

And the lion, for me, is essential, even if it is almost certainly a fiction added by later writers who sought to humanize the lawyerly and confrontational Doctor of the Church.

Long before he became one of the Doctors of the Church, Jerome took to a life of simplicity in the desert of Syria, rejecting worldly comforts.

She and the Spanish clerical reformer Saint John of Avila were the first new Doctors of the Church to be named in 15 years.

A large fresco, representing the four Doctors of the Church who had especially written in honour of the Virgin: viz.,