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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Andrew Bobola

1591 - 1657

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Andrew Bobola, SJ (Polish: Andrzej Bobola; 1591 – 16 May 1657) was a Polish missionary and martyr of the Society of Jesus, known as the Apostle of Lithuania and the "hunter of souls". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrew Bobola has received more than 136,505 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Andrew Bobola is the 1,369th most popular religious figure (down from 1,238th in 2019), the 435th most popular biography from Poland (down from 428th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Polish Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Andrew Bobola ranks 1,369 out of 2,238Before him are Violet Brown, Ieronymos II of Athens, Junia, Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Simon Kimbangu, and Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje. After him are Anna Schäffer, Mamertus, Parshvanatha, An Shigao, Rafael Merry del Val, and Theodosius of Kiev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1591, Andrew Bobola ranks 11Before him are Louise de Marillac, Alexandre de Rhodes, Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Isabella of Savoy, and Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Lorraine. After him are Stanisław Koniecpolski, Friedrich Spee, Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Olimpia Maidalchini, Dirck Hals, and Johann von Werth. Among people deceased in 1657, Andrew Bobola ranks 12Before him are Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, Kâtip Çelebi, Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine, Laura Mancini, Balthasar van der Ast, and Jacob van Campen. After him are Robert Blake, Menasseh Ben Israel, Hayashi Razan, Olimpia Maidalchini, Jacob van Eyck, and John Lilburne.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Andrew Bobola ranks 435 out of 1,454Before him are Mieszko I Tanglefoot (1132), Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (1905), Israel Joshua Singer (1893), Zawisza Czarny (1379), and Karol Świerczewski (1897). After him are Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874), Maria Cunitz (1610), Julian Tuwim (1894), Gavriil Ilizarov (1921), Fritz von Below (1853), and Izabela Czartoryska (1746).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Poland

Among religious figures born in Poland, Andrew Bobola ranks 19Before him are Lubomyr Husar (1933), Stanisław Dziwisz (1939), Wolf Messing (1899), Emil Krebs (1867), Moses Isserles (1520), and Adam Stefan Sapieha (1867). After him are Jan Sarkander (1576), Joachim Meisner (1933), John Albert Vasa (1612), Franciszek Macharski (1927), Melchior Grodziecki (1584), and Stanisław Ryłko (1945).