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 191,780 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). John of Ávila is the 819th most popular religious figure (up from 864th in 2019), the 327th most popular biography from Spain (up from 349th in 2019) and the 25th 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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  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, John of Ávila ranks 819 out of 3,187. Before him are Nikephoros I of Constantinople, Tatiana of Rome, Stanislaus Kostka, Romano Guardini, Piruz Nahavandi, and Safi-ad-din Ardabili. After him are `Abdu'l-Bahá, Nicolaus Zinzendorf, Sergius of Radonezh, Athanasius the Athonite, Saint Maurus, and 'Abd Allah ibn 'Amr ibn al-'As.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1500, John of Ávila ranks 11. Before him are Gülfem Hatun, Fatma Sultan, Lala Mustafa Pasha, Wu Cheng'en, Bartolomeo Eustachi, and Hernando de Soto. After him are Al-Mutawakkil III, Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Çandarlı Halil Pasha the Younger, Sinan Pasha, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, and Afanasy Nikitin. Among people deceased in 1569, John of Ávila ranks 2. Before him is Pieter Bruegel the Elder. After him are Gracia Mendes Nasi, Louis, Prince of Condé, Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Maria Temryukovna, Gerolama Orsini, Aben Humeya, Mikołaj Rej, Catherine Carey, Philibert, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, John of Ávila ranks 327 out of 3,355. Before him are Rafael Benítez (1960), Prudentius (348), Amancio Amaro (1939), Charles II, Duke of Parma (1799), John of Austria the Younger (1629), and Rafael Nadal (1986). After him are Benjamin of Tudela (1130), Juan Antonio Villacañas (1922), Francisco Largo Caballero (1869), Pompeu Fabra (1868), Ferdinand II of León (1137), and Joseph Calasanz (1556).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Spain

Among religious figures born in Spain, John of Ávila ranks 25. Before him are Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía (1510), Eulalia of Mérida (290), Raymond of Penyafort (1175), Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur (1626), Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436), and Isidore the Laborer (1080). After him are Al-Qurtubi (1214), Peter of Alcantara (1499), Eulalia of Barcelona (290), Priscillian (340), Anthony Mary Claret (1807), and Antipope Clement VIII (1370).

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