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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Bérenger Saunière

1852 - 1917

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François-Bérenger Saunière (11 April 1852 – 22 January 1917) was a French Catholic priest in the village of Rennes-le-Château, in the Aude region. He was a central figure in the conspiracy theories surrounding the village, which form the basis of several documentaries and books such as the 1982 Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. Elements of these theories were later used by Dan Brown in his best-selling 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code, in which the fictional character Jacques Saunière is named after the priest.Saunière served in Rennes-le-Château from 1885 until he was transferred to another village in 1909 by his bishop. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bérenger Saunière has received more than 209,660 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Bérenger Saunière is the 1,248th most popular religious figure, the 2,019th most popular biography from France and the 102nd most popular French Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Bérenger Saunière ranks 1,248 out of 2,238Before him are Alexander Schmorell, Renato Martino, Benedict Joseph Labre, Hyacinth of Poland, Frederick of Utrecht, and Oda Nobutada. After him are Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri, Saleh Al-Fawzan, Urbain Grandier, Luis Ladaria Ferrer, Abbo of Fleury, and Kevin Farrell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Bérenger Saunière ranks 40Before him are Pietro Gasparri, John Louis Emil Dreyer, Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, John Harvey Kellogg, and I. L. Peretz. After him are Joseph Freinademetz, Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria, Friedrich Loeffler, Charles W. Fairbanks, Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, and John Henry Poynting. Among people deceased in 1917, Bérenger Saunière ranks 35Before him are Hugo Simberg, Maximilian von Prittwitz, Gustav von Schmoller, Georges Guynemer, Mendele Mocher Sforim, and Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz. After him are Carolus-Duran, Ivan Goremykin, Lucien Petit-Breton, Kristian Birkeland, Matthias Zurbriggen, and Duke Philipp of Württemberg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Bérenger Saunière ranks 2,019 out of 6,011Before him are Benedict Joseph Labre (1748), William Iron Arm (1010), Louis Delluc (1890), Olivier Giroud (1986), Blanche of Artois (1248), and Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle (1712). After him are Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734), Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti (1695), Urbain Grandier (1590), Eugène Carrière (1849), Pierre Charron (1541), and Abbo of Fleury (945).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In France

Among religious figures born in France, Bérenger Saunière ranks 102Before him are Blandina (101), Charles de Bourbon (1523), Peter the Venerable (1092), Jean-Marie Villot (1905), Pierre de Castelnau (1170), and Benedict Joseph Labre (1748). After him are Urbain Grandier (1590), Abbo of Fleury (945), Aldegonde (639), Hugh of Châteauneuf (1053), Jean Calas (1698), and Germanus of Auxerre (378).