RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Kateri Tekakwitha

1656 - 1680

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Kateri Tekakwitha (pronounced [ˈɡaderi deɡaˈɡwita] in Mohawk), given the name Tekakwitha, baptized as Catherine, and informally known as Lily of the Mohawks (1656 – April 17, 1680), is a Mohawk/Algonquin Catholic saint and virgin. Born in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon, in present-day New York, she contracted smallpox in an epidemic; her family died and her face was scarred. She converted to Catholicism at age 19. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kateri Tekakwitha has received more than 1,483,427 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Kateri Tekakwitha is the 1,810th most popular religious figure (down from 1,686th in 2019), the 3,516th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,545th in 2019) and the 26th most popular American Religious Figure.

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  • 53.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Kateri Tekakwitha ranks 1,810 out of 3,187. Before her are Fulton J. Sheen, Puṇṇa Mantānīputta, Engelbert II of Berg, Lucian Mureșan, Lokaksema, and Michael Czerny. After her are Peter III of Alexandria, Pietro Aldobrandini, Joseph Butler, Angelo Comastri, Brynjólfur Sveinsson, and Laurentius Petri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1656, Kateri Tekakwitha ranks 10. Before her are Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Nicolas de Largillière, Guillaume Dubois, and Robert de Cotte. After her are Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Guru Har Krishan, Ferdinand de Marsin, François Le Fort, and Johanna Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg. Among people deceased in 1680, Kateri Tekakwitha ranks 27. Before her are Per Brahe the Younger, Li Yu, Peter Lely, Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg, Joachim Neander, and Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels. After her are Frans Post, Symeon of Polotsk, Pierre-Paul Riquet, Marco Uccellini, Yun Hyu, and Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kateri Tekakwitha ranks 3,516 out of 20,380. Before her are Vesto Slipher (1875), Lee Morgan (1938), Al Green (1946), Arthur Janov (1924), Fiorello H. La Guardia (1882), and Steve Bannon (1953). After her are Andrew Taylor Still (1828), James Forrestal (1892), Aaron Paul (1979), Rufus Wainwright (1973), John Zerzan (1943), and Wayne Knight (1955).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Kateri Tekakwitha ranks 26. Before her are Frederick William Franz (1893), Samuel Wilson (1766), Nathan Homer Knorr (1905), Raymond Franz (1922), Don Alden Adams (1925), and Fulton J. Sheen (1895). After her are Bill W. (1895), Elizabeth Bolden (1890), Charles Fox Parham (1873), Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1757), David Wilkerson (1931), and David Koresh (1959).

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