RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Charbel Makhlouf

1828 - 1898

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Charbel Makhlouf, O.L.M. (Arabic: شربل مخلوف, May 8, 1828 – December 24, 1898), born Youssef Antoun Makhlouf and venerated as Saint Charbel, was a Maronite monk and priest from modern-day Lebanon. During his life, he obtained a wide reputation for holiness, and for his ability to unite Christians, Muslims and Druze. He is known among Lebanese Christians as the "Miracle Monk of Lebanon" because of the favours received through his intercession, especially after prayers are said at his tomb in the Monastery of Saint Maron in Annaya, Lebanon. He was beatified in 1965 and canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charbel Makhlouf has received more than 1,114,346 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Charbel Makhlouf is the 439th most popular religious figure (up from 472nd in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Lebanon (up from 11th in 2019) and the most popular Lebanese Religious Figure.

Charbel Makhlouf is most famous for being a Lebanese singer and actor.

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  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Charbel Makhlouf ranks 439 out of 3,187. Before him are Pope John V, Pope Leo II, Abdullah ibn Masud, Pope Valentine, Sumayyah bint Khabbat, and Pachomius the Great. After him are Nehemiah, Saint Apollonia, Pope Boniface III, Beatrice Portinari, Pope Vitalian, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Charbel Makhlouf ranks 8. Before him are Jules Verne, Henry Dunant, Henrik Ibsen, Saigō Takamori, Rani of Jhansi, and Hippolyte Taine. After him are Randal Cremer, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Ferdinand Cohn, Albert Marth, and Louise of the Netherlands. Among people deceased in 1898, Charbel Makhlouf ranks 6. Before him are Otto von Bismarck, Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Lewis Carroll, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Gustave Moreau. After him are Eugène Boudin, Ivan Shishkin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Johann Jakob Balmer, Charles Garnier, and Ferdinand Cohn.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Charbel Makhlouf ranks 9 out of 145. Before him are Ahab (-900), Porphyry (233), Keanu Reeves (1964), Dido (-879), Ulpian (170), and Michel Aoun (1935). After him are Rafic Hariri (1944), Christina of Bolsena (210), Fairuz (1935), Hassan Nasrallah (1960), Pope Constantine (664), and Najib Mikati (1955).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Lebanon

Among religious figures born in Lebanon, Charbel Makhlouf ranks 1. After him are Christina of Bolsena (210), Pope Constantine (664), Eusebius of Nicomedia (280), Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir (1073), Rashid Rida (1865), Frumentius (400), Pope Sisinnius (650), Pamphilus of Caesarea (240), Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i (707), Nimatullah Kassab (1808), and Bechara Boutros al-Rahi (1940).

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