In 1861, French surgeon-anthropologist Paul Broca transformed our understanding of mind and brain through his careful clinico-anatomical study of the famous patient Louis Victor Leborgne, known as “Tan” for the only syllable he could utter despite preserved comprehension. Upon Tan’s death, Broca demonstrated a focal lesion in the left inferior frontal gyrus, concluding, against then-dominant holistic views, that articulated speech production is localised to a specific cortical region now called Broca’s area (Broca, 1861), a discovery soon complemented by Carl Wernicke’s identification of a posterior temporal region critical for language comprehension (1874), and refined by contributors such as John Hughlings Jackson and Joseph Jules Dejerine, thereby founding modern cognitive neuroscience and aphasiology. Viewed from a Christian perspective, Broca’s work honours the Biblical affirmation that humans are created in the imago Dei (Genesis 1:27), endowed with language as a means to steward meaning and relationship, echoing the moral power of speech (“Death and life are in the power of the tongue,” Proverbs 18:21) and the redemptive calling to communicate truth and love (Ephesians 4:29). Its enduring legacy benefits personal wellbeing by guiding compassionate diagnosis and rehabilitation after stroke or injury, while strengthening societal health through evidence-based care, education, and inclusion that restore voices and dignity to those with language disorders.