RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Bernadette Soubirous

1844 - 1879

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Bernadette Soubirous (; French: [bɛʁnadɛt subiʁu]; Occitan: Bernadeta Sobirós [beɾnaˈðetɔ suβiˈɾus]; 7 January 1844 – 16 April 1879), also known as Bernadette of Lourdes, was the firstborn daughter of a miller from Lourdes (Lorda in Occitan), in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France, and is best known for experiencing apparitions of a "young lady" who asked for a chapel to be built at the nearby cave-grotto. These apparitions occurred between 11 February and 16 July 1858, and the young lady who appeared to her identified herself as the "Immaculate Conception". After a canonical investigation, Soubirous's reports were eventually declared "worthy of belief" on 18 February 1862, and the Marian apparition became known as Our Lady of Lourdes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernadette Soubirous has received more than 3,394,651 page views. Her biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Bernadette Soubirous is the 181st most popular religious figure (down from 148th in 2019), the 177th most popular biography from France (down from 165th in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Religious Figure.

Bernadette Soubirous is most famous for having visions of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.35

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Bernadette Soubirous ranks 181 out of 3,187. Before her are Lazarus of Bethany, Pope Urban V, Saint Blaise, Pope Adrian VI, Pope Boniface V, and Saint Cecilia. After her are Pope Clement IX, Pope Celestine I, Abdul Qadir Gilani, Malik ibn Anas, Pope Urban III, and Pope Gregory VIII.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Bernadette Soubirous ranks 8. Before her are Karl Benz, Sarah Bernhardt, Anatole France, Paul Verlaine, Mehmed V, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. After her are Henri Rousseau, Ilya Repin, Umberto I of Italy, Mary Cassatt, Ludwig Boltzmann, and Alexandra of Denmark. Among people deceased in 1879, Bernadette Soubirous ranks 2. Before her is James Clerk Maxwell. After her are Honoré Daumier, Napoléon, Prince Imperial, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Adolf Anderssen, Albrecht von Roon, Gottfried Semper, Thomas Couture, Julia Margaret Cameron, August Grisebach, and Charles De Coster.

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In France

Among people born in France, Bernadette Soubirous ranks 177 out of 6,770. Before her are Edward IV of England (1442), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Jean Bodin (1530), Pope Urban V (1310), Annie Ernaux (1940), and Louis VII of France (1120). After her are Louis VIII of France (1187), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835), Francis II of France (1544), Vilfredo Pareto (1848), Georges Seurat (1859), and Carlo Buonaparte (1746).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In France

Among religious figures born in France, Bernadette Soubirous ranks 10. Before her are Thérèse of Lisieux (1873), Saint Sebastian (300), Pope Clement V (1264), Pope John XXII (1244), Pope Martin IV (1220), and Pope Urban V (1310). After her are Pope Clement VI (1291), Saint Roch (1295), Pope Benedict XII (1280), Pope Gregory XI (1370), Pope Clement IV (1190), and Pope Urban IV (1185).

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