RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Dominic Savio

1842 - 1857

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Dominic Savio (Italian: Domenico Savio; 2 April 1842 – 9 March 1857) was an Italian student of John Bosco who became a Catholic saint. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died at the age of 14, possibly from pleurisy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dominic Savio has received more than 851,519 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Dominic Savio is the 480th most popular religious figure (down from 471st in 2019), the 553rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 546th in 2019) and the 218th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

Dominic Savio is most famous for his speech at the March on Washington in 1963. He was a Catholic priest and a civil rights activist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Dominic Savio ranks 480 out of 3,187. Before him are Pope Stephen VIII, Antipope Benedict XIII, Alphonsus Liguori, Thomas Becket, Anastasia of Sirmium, and Pope John VI. After him are Pope John IV, Zaynab bint Khuzayma, Aloysius Gonzaga, Laban, Pope Caius, and Adalbert of Prague.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Dominic Savio ranks 9. Before him are Peter Kropotkin, Stéphane Mallarmé, Jules Massenet, Alfred Marshall, Karl May, and John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh. After him are Josef Breuer, Camille Flammarion, Paul Lafargue, Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, Okita Sōji, and Hermann Cohen. Among people deceased in 1857, Dominic Savio ranks 7. Before him are Auguste Comte, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Carl Czerny, Archduchess Sophie of Austria, Eugène François Vidocq, and Alfred de Musset. After him are Mikhail Glinka, Eugène Sue, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Francis Beaufort, and Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Dominic Savio ranks 553 out of 5,161. Before him are Rodolfo Graziani (1882), Dionysius I of Syracuse (-430), Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (1833), Alphonsus Liguori (1696), Anastasia of Sirmium (281), and Giulio Caccini (1551). After him are Aloysius Gonzaga (1568), Romano Prodi (1939), Paolo Rossi (1956), Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples (1937), Maria Anna of Savoy (1803), and Maria Luisa of Parma (1751).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Dominic Savio ranks 218. Before him are Pope John XIV (1000), Peter Lombard (1096), Pope Eutychian (300), Pope Stephen VIII (900), Alphonsus Liguori (1696), and Anastasia of Sirmium (281). After him are Aloysius Gonzaga (1568), Denis (210), Saint Eustace (10), Saint Rosalia (1130), Pope Zephyrinus (150), and Pope Miltiades (250).

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