His name at birth was Malcolm Little. His father was murdered when he was six. His mother was institutionalised when he was twelve. His teacher told him his goal of becoming a lawyer was no realistic goal for a person of his race. He turned to crime. He was arrested at twenty and sentenced to eight to ten years.

In prison he found the Nation of Islam and became Malcolm X. He grew the organisation from five hundred to thirty thousand members. He broke with the Nation of Islam in 1964. He made the Hajj to Mecca. He saw white Muslims and Black Muslims praying together. His entire framework collapsed and rebuilt itself. He became El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.

He was assassinated on the twenty first of February 1965. He was thirty nine years old. He was in the middle of the most important transformation of his life. This is his story.

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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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He was a fisherman from Galilee. He was the first person Jesus called. He was the one Jesus called the Rock — and built his church upon. He was also the one who denied knowing Jesus three times in a single night. While Jesus was being tried.

While Jesus could hear him. He wept. He became, after the resurrection, the leader of the early church — the one who preached at Pentecost, who performed the first miracle, who opened Christianity to the Gentiles.

He was crucified upside down in Rome under Emperor Nero around 64 A.D. He asked to be crucified that way. He said he was not worthy to die in the same manner as the one he had denied. Every year on the twenty ninth of June the church remembers him alongside Paul. T

wo completely different men. One feast day. This is Peter's story.

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Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the island of Corsica in 1769. He graduated 42nd out of 58 in his class at the Paris military academy. He was Emperor of France at thirty-four.

He conquered most of Europe. He introduced the Napoleonic Code — still the foundation of civil law in dozens of countries today. He abolished feudalism across every territory he conquered.

In 1812 he led 600,000 men into Russia. Approximately half a million never came back.

He died on a remote island in the South Atlantic on 5 May 1821. He was fifty-one years old.

His gravestone was left blank. The French wanted it to say Napoleon. The British wanted it to say Napoleon Bonaparte. Neither side would compromise. For nineteen years the stone had no name.

This is the most French story ever told.

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Mary MacKillop was born in Melbourne in 1842 to Scottish immigrant parents. She founded Australia's first religious order — the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart — and dedicated her life to educating poor children across the outback.

When a priest in her network was credibly accused of sexual abuse, she reported it. He was sent back to Ireland. A colleague, furious at his removal, manipulated the Bishop of Adelaide — and on 22 September 1871, Mary was excommunicated.

During those months as an outcast, she was sheltered by a Jewish family and Jesuit priests. Nine days before the bishop died, he rescinded the excommunication and admitted he had been deceived.

She kept building schools.

In 2010, Mary MacKillop became Australia's first and only canonised saint.

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He lived in the Judaean desert eating locusts and wild honey. He emerged preaching repentance beside the Jordan River, drawing crowds from across the region. Soldiers came. Tax collectors came. His cousin Jesus came.

John baptised them all.

He fearlessly condemned the ruler Herod Antipas for marrying his brother's wife, and for that he was imprisoned. At Herod's birthday banquet, a dance, a reckless promise, and a grudge changed history. The reward requested was the head of John the Baptist.

Revered in Christianity, Islam, and the Mandaean tradition, John remains one of history's most uncompromising truth-tellers.

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