RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Joseph Cafasso

1811 - 1860

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Joseph Cafasso (Italian: Giuseppe Cafasso; 15 January 1811 – 23 June 1860) was an Italian Catholic priest who was a significant social reformer in Turin. He was one of the so-called "Social Saints" who emerged during that particular era. He is known as the "Priest of the Gallows" due to his extensive work with those prisoners who were condemned to death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Cafasso has received more than 74,339 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Joseph Cafasso is the 1,838th most popular religious figure (down from 1,608th in 2019).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Joseph Cafasso ranks 1,838 out of 3,187Before her are Innocent of Alaska, Pinedjem II, Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi, Peter Turkson, Alexander of Bergamo, and Manuel Monteiro de Castro. After her are Adolf Bertram, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Kurt Koch, Anno II, Maria Giuseppa Robucci, and Conrad of Parzham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Joseph Cafasso ranks 39Before her are Mohammad Afzal Khan, Raden Saleh, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, Karel Jaromír Erben, Karl Gutzkow, and Émilie de Villeneuve. After her are Georg August Wallin, Peter Julian Eymard, William Robert Grove, Carl Johan Thyselius, John William Draper, and Princess Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. Among people deceased in 1860, Joseph Cafasso ranks 36Before her are Ferdinand Christian Baur, Élie, duc Decazes, Duchess Marie of Württemberg, Ludwig Rellstab, Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and Johann Friedrich Klotzsch. After her are Charles Barry, Tokugawa Nariaki, André Marie Constant Duméril, Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy, and Honoré Charles Reille.

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