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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

John of Ávila

1500 - 1569

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John of Ávila (Spanish: Juan de Ávila; 6 January 1499– 10 May 1569) was a Spanish priest, preacher, scholastic author, and religious mystic, who has been declared a saint and Doctor of the Church by the Catholic Church. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John of Ávila has received more than 172,703 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). John of Ávila is the 872nd most popular religious figure (down from 864th in 2019), the 349th most popular biography from Spain (up from 367th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Spanish Religious Figure.

John of Ávila was a Spanish theologian who wrote about the spiritual life. He is most famous for being the first person to write about the spiritual life in a systematic way.

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, John of Ávila ranks 872 out of 2,238Before him are Killing of Peter Fechter, Agnes of Bohemia, Odilo of Cluny, Juan Diego, Abdullah ibn Muhammad, and Lucian of Antioch. After him are Basilides, Antipope Clement VIII, Sophronius of Jerusalem, Cyriacus, Jael, and Abiathar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1500, John of Ávila ranks 13Before him are Wu Cheng'en, Lala Mustafa Pasha, Bartolomeo Eustachi, Hernando de Soto, Al-Mutawakkil III, and Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua. After him are Çandarlı Halil Pasha the Younger, Reginald Pole, Afanasy Nikitin, Paris Bordone, Sinan Pasha, and Elizabeth Blount. Among people deceased in 1569, John of Ávila ranks 3Before him are Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Louis, Prince of Condé. After him are Gracia Mendes Nasi, Maria Temryukovna, Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Gerolama Orsini, Aben Humeya, Mikołaj Rej, António Ferreira, Catherine Carey, and Philibert, Margrave of Baden-Baden.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, John of Ávila ranks 349 out of 2,932Before him are Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1910), David Villa (1981), Pánfilo de Narváez (1478), Achila II (695), Martin I of Sicily (1374), and Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867). After him are Antipope Clement VIII (1370), Lola Flores (1923), Manolo Blahnik (1942), Alfonso V of León (994), Martín Alonso Pinzón (1441), and Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Spain

Among religious figures born in Spain, John of Ávila ranks 29Before him are Francisco Álvarez Martínez (1925), Eduardo Martínez Somalo (1927), Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436), Isidore the Laborer (1080), Diego de Landa (1524), and Peter of Alcantara (1499). After him are Antipope Clement VIII (1370), Al-Qurtubi (1214), Eulalia of Barcelona (290), Priscillian (340), Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado (1643), and Hermenegild (564).