RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Didacus of Alcalá

1400 - 1463

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Didacus of Alcalá (Spanish: Diego de Alcalá), also known as Diego de San Nicolás, was a Spanish Franciscan lay brother who served among the first group of missionaries to the newly conquered Canary Islands. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Didacus of Alcalá has received more than 486,387 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Didacus of Alcalá is the 1,058th most popular religious figure (up from 1,177th in 2019), the 494th most popular biography from Spain (up from 573rd in 2019) and the 36th most popular Spanish Religious Figure.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.18

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  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Didacus of Alcalá ranks 1,058 out of 3,187Before him are Guru Arjan, Thibaud Gaudin, Felix of Valois, Muslim ibn Aqil, William of Gellone, and Roger Etchegaray. After him are Jayadeva, Merytre-Hatshepsut, Fausto Sozzini, Sergio Sebastiani, Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, and Margaret of Cortona.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1400, Didacus of Alcalá ranks 10Before him are Gilles Binchois, Gennadius Scholarius, Hüma Hatun, Filarete, Ruy González de Clavijo, and Konrad Witz. After him are Alexander I of Moldavia, Dabiša of Bosnia, Ausiàs March, Vladislav II of Wallachia, Goharshad Begum, and Helena of Bulgaria, Empress of Serbia. Among people deceased in 1463, Didacus of Alcalá ranks 7Before him are François Villon, Marie of Anjou, Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia, David of Trebizond, Albert VI, Archduke of Austria, and Flavio Biondo. After him are Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, Catherine of Bologna, Isidore of Kiev, John IV, Duke of Bavaria, and Mary of Guelders.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Didacus of Alcalá ranks 494 out of 3,355Before him are Al-Mundhir of Córdoba (842), Ferdinand, Prince of Asturias (1571), Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias (1657), Alfonso IV of León (890), Rafael Alberti (1902), and Guti (1976). After him are Juan Prim, 1st Count of Reus (1814), Tulga (622), Santiago Carrillo (1915), Salvador Puig Antich (1948), Lorenzo Sanz (1943), and García Ramírez of Navarre (1110).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Spain

Among religious figures born in Spain, Didacus of Alcalá ranks 36Before him are Anthony Mary Claret (1807), Antipope Clement VIII (1370), Peter Claver (1581), Hermenegild (564), Raymond Nonnatus (1204), and Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado (1643). After him are Diego de Landa (1524), Beatus of Liébana (730), Fermin (272), Luis Ladaria Ferrer (1944), Clemente Domínguez y Gómez (1946), and Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (1057).