RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Benedict Joseph Labre

1748 - 1783

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Benedict Joseph Labre, TOSF (French: Benoît-Joseph Labre, 25 March 1748 – 16 April 1783) was a French Franciscan tertiary, and Catholic saint. Labre was from a well-to-do family near Arras, France. After attempting a monastic lifestyle, he opted instead for the life of a pilgrim. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benedict Joseph Labre has received more than 212,048 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Benedict Joseph Labre is the 1,368th most popular religious figure (down from 1,234th in 2019), the 2,249th most popular biography from France (down from 2,006th in 2019) and the 113th most popular French Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Benedict Joseph Labre ranks 1,368 out of 3,187. Before him are Giuseppe Siri, Antipope Callixtus III, Oswald of Northumbria, Raymond Leo Burke, Sheikh Said, and Victor Maurus. After him are Mayta Cápac, Jair, Barsanuphius, Agathius, Ludovico Ludovisi, and Johannes Oecolampadius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1748, Benedict Joseph Labre ranks 15. Before him are Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, William V, Prince of Orange, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Petar I Petrović-Njegoš, and Adamantios Korais. After him are Dominique, comte de Cassini, Anders Sparrman, Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, and John Playfair. Among people deceased in 1783, Benedict Joseph Labre ranks 12. Before him are Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Yosa Buson, Antonio Soler, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Johann Kirnberger, and Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt. After him are Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Johann Jakob Bodmer, Christian Mayer, William Hunter, Ignaz Holzbauer, and Gerhard Friedrich Müller.

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In France

Among people born in France, Benedict Joseph Labre ranks 2,249 out of 6,770. Before him are René Fonck (1894), Thierry Sabine (1949), William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (935), Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786), and Beatrice of Lorraine (1017). After him are Eugène Marin Labiche (1815), Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano (1628), Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis (1746), Étienne-Gabriel Morelly (1717), Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este (1955), and Drogo of Champagne (670).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In France

Among religious figures born in France, Benedict Joseph Labre ranks 113. Before him are Jean Calas (1698), Louis Massignon (1883), Bernard de Montfaucon (1655), Raymonde de Laroche (1882), Ivo of Chartres (1040), and Peter Nolasco (1180). After him are Germain of Paris (496), Pierre de Castelnau (1170), Saint Martial (300), Peter Bartholomew (1100), Jean-Marie Lustiger (1926), and Urbain Grandier (1590).

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