To mark our anniversary, we have invited 50 Catholics to choose the person from the past 175 years whose life has been a personal inspiration to them and an example of their faith at its best When the Polish writer Czeslaw Milosz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, his was hardly a household name. The same was probably true when he died, aged 93, in 2004. Yet he had long become a hero, a friend and an inspiration to those familiar with his work: the 750 pages of his New and Collected Poems 1931-2001, his two novels, his piercing indictment, The Captive Mind, of Marxist-Leninism, and his many other books and essays.He lived through the worst ­horrors of twentieth-century Europe. Born in 1911 to Polish-Lithuanian gentry in the Tsarist empire, he was haunted always by the