Archbishop Óscar Romero read El Salvador's violence into the record every week, until they killed him. A public record can break a regime's spell.

A peasant girl from Domremy talked her way to the future king, lifted the siege of Orleans, and saw him crowned before she turned 18.

He volunteered to live among Hawaii's exiled leprosy patients on Molokai, served them for 16 years, and died of the disease himself.