RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Gerard Majella

1726 - 1755

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Gerard Majella (Italian: Gerardo Maiella; 6 April 1726 – 16 October 1755) was an Italian lay brother of the Congregation of the Redeemer, better known as the Redemptorists, who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church. His intercession is for children, unborn children, women in childbirth, mothers, expectant mothers, motherhood, the falsely accused, good confessions, lay brothers and Muro Lucano, Italy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerard Majella has received more than 565,953 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Gerard Majella is the 878th most popular religious figure (down from 874th in 2019).

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  • 60.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Gerard Majella ranks 878 out of 3,187. Before him are Dayananda Saraswati, Columba, Philipp Spener, Hans Egede, Caesar Baronius, and Ebussuud Efendi. After him are Bavo of Ghent, Al-Tabarani, Angela of Foligno, Ahmad al-Rifaʽi, Scipione Borghese, and Mary of Bethany.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1726, Gerard Majella ranks 6. Before him are François-André Danican Philidor, Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain, Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia, James Hutton, and Jacob Frank. After him are Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Prince Henry of Prussia, Louise Henriette de Bourbon, Princess Louise of Denmark, Alexander Ypsilantis, and Daniel Chodowiecki. Among people deceased in 1755, Gerard Majella ranks 3. Before him are Montesquieu, and Francesco Durante. After him are Princess Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Johann Georg Pisendel, Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Johann Georg Gmelin, Johann Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz, and Philipp Stamma.

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