writings influenced the development of Western philosophy and Western Christianity, and he is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers of the Latin Church in the Patristic Period. He was raised by a Catholic Mother, Monica, but joined the Manichean sect before converting and being baptized into the Catholic faith at the age of 31. B Johann Christian Bach: composer; youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach Thomas Bailey: royalist and controversialist; his father was Anglican bishop Lewis Bayly Beryl Bainbridge: English novelist Bessie Anstice Baker, Australian writer and philanthropist, author of A Modern Pilgrim's Progress Francis Asbury Baker: American priest, missionary, and social worker; one of the founders of the Paulist Fathers in 1858 Josephine Bakhita: Sudanese-born former slave; became a Canossian Religious Sister in Italy, living and working there for 45 years; in 2000 she was declared a saint Banine: French writer of Azeri descent Daniel Barber: An American priest of the Episcopal Church before his conversion to Catholicism Maurice Baring: English intellectual, writer, and war correspondent Mark Barkworth: English Catholic priest, martyr, and beatified person Barlaam of Seminara: involved in the Hesychast controversy as an opponent to Gregory Palamas, possibly a revert Arthur Barnes: formerly an Anglican priest, who became a Catholic writer and the first Catholic chaplain of both Cambridge and Oxford Universities Edwin Barnes: formerly an Anglican bishop Joan Bartlett: foundress of the Servite Secular Institute James Roosevelt Bayley: first bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark and eighth Archbishop of Baltimore Aubrey Beardsley: English illustrator and author; before his death, converted to Catholicism and renounced his erotic drawings Francis J. Beckwith: American philosopher, Baylor University professor, and former president of the Evangelical Theological Society; technically a revert Jean Mohamed Ben Abdejlil: Moroccan scholar and Roman Catholic priest Benedict Mar Gregorios: Metropolitan Archbishop of Trivandrum, 1955-1994 Peter Benenson: founder of human rights group Amnesty International Robert Hugh Benson: English writer and theologian; son of an Archbishop of Canterbury Elizabeth Bentley: former Soviet spy who defected to the West; was converted by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Bernard Berenson: American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. Mary Kay Bergman: American voice actress Bernardo the Japanese: one of the first Japanese people to visit Europe Jiao Bingzhen: painter and astronomer Conrad Black: Canadian-born historian, columnist, UK peer, and convicted felon for fraud; his conviction was overturned subsequently on appeal Tony Blair: former Prime Minister of the