RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Joseph of Cupertino

1603 - 1663

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Joseph of Cupertino (Copertino), OFM Conv. (Italian: Giuseppe da Copertino; 17 June 1603 – 18 September 1663) was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar who is honored as a Christian mystic and saint. According to traditional Franciscan accounts, he was "remarkably unclever", but experienced miraculous levitation and ecstatic visions throughout his life which made him the object of scorn. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph of Cupertino has received more than 785,887 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Joseph of Cupertino is the 589th most popular religious figure (down from 561st in 2019), the 692nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 657th in 2019) and the 236th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

Joseph of Cupertino was a Franciscan friar who is most famous for his ability to levitate.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Joseph of Cupertino ranks 589 out of 3,187. Before him are Camillus de Lellis, Anna the Prophetess, Edward the Confessor, Umm Kulthum bint Ali, Ansgar, and Marcel Lefebvre. After him are Ibn Hisham, Nachman of Breslov, Pope Marcellinus, Columbanus, Joan Enric Vives Sicília, and Jethro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1603, Joseph of Cupertino ranks 2. Before him is Abel Tasman. After him are Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur, Lennart Torstensson, Adam Olearius, Aert van der Neer, Christian, Prince-Elect of Denmark, Yerofey Khabarov, Francesco Furini, Friedrich Wilhelm II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Michel Le Tellier, and Marco Uccellini. Among people deceased in 1663, Joseph of Cupertino ranks 1. After him are Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Christine of France, Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Princess Margaret Yolande of Savoy, Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern, Heinrich Scheidemann, Giancarlo de' Medici, and Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Joseph of Cupertino ranks 692 out of 5,161. Before him are Francis of Paola (1416), Conrad of Montferrat (1146), Camillus de Lellis (1550), Dino Buzzati (1906), Pisanello (1395), and Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (1562). After him are Agathocles of Syracuse (-361), Nicola Pisano (1225), Pope Marcellinus (250), Giorgetto Giugiaro (1938), Giacinto Facchetti (1942), and Pescennius Niger (135).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Joseph of Cupertino ranks 236. Before him are Pope John XIII (930), Paul the Deacon (720), Pope Donus (610), Pope Romanus (850), Francis of Paola (1416), and Camillus de Lellis (1550). After him are Pope Marcellinus (250), Pope Stephen V (850), Pope Theodore II (840), Angela Merici (1474), Giulia Farnese (1474), and Alexius of Rome (400).

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