She was born Hildegard of Bermersheim around 1098 in West Franconia in what is now Germany. She was the tenth child of a noble family. She was sent to live in a stone cell attached to a monastery at the age of eight.

She had been having visions since the age of three. She did not write about them for forty years. At forty three she received what she described as a fiery light from heaven that struck her brain. She began to write. What followed was three volumes of visionary theology.

Seventy seven musical compositions. Nearly four hundred letters to popes, emperors, and kings. Two books on medicine and natural history. An invented language. A morality play that is the oldest surviving example of the form.

She was not formally canonised until 2012. Nine hundred years after her death. This is the most overlooked mind in the history of Western civilisation.

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She was born Nzinga Mbande around 1583 in what is now Angola. Her name means one whose birth cord was wrapped around her neck. It was seen as a sign of exceptional destiny.

In 1622 she arrived at the Portuguese governor's office to negotiate on behalf of her brother. The Portuguese had prepared only one chair — for the governor.

She was expected to stand. She motioned to one of her male attendants. He knelt on all fours. She sat on him. She negotiated from that position for the entire meeting. She then spent thirty years fighting Portugal. She led troops personally into her sixties. She forged alliances with the Dutch against Portugal.

She provided sanctuary to escaped slaves. She died on the seventeenth of December 1663 at approximately eighty years old.

The word Angola comes from Ngola — the title of the ruler of Ndongo. She is called the Mother of Angola. This is her story.

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He never met Jesus during his lifetime. He spent years hunting Christians down and consenting to their execution. He was present at the stoning of Stephen — the first Christian martyr.

He was on his way to Damascus with letters authorising the arrest of more Christians when the light hit him. He was knocked to the ground. He heard a voice. He was blind for three days. He became the most important theologian in the history of Christianity.

He wrote thirteen letters that are still read in churches every week. He walked more than fifteen thousand kilometres across the Roman world. He was beheaded in Rome under Nero. Every year on the twenty ninth of June the whole church remembers him alongside Peter.

Two completely different men. One feast day. This is Paul's story.

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