RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Marcellin Champagnat

1789 - 1840

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Marcellin Joseph Benedict Champagnat, FMS (20 May 1789 – 6 June 1840) was a French Catholic religious born in Le Rosey, village of Marlhes, near St. Etienne (Loire), France. He was the founder of the Marist Brothers, a religious congregation of brothers in the Catholic Church devoted to Mary and dedicated to education. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcellin Champagnat has received more than 314,819 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Marcellin Champagnat is the 1,542nd most popular religious figure (down from 1,496th in 2019), the 2,554th most popular biography from France (down from 2,538th in 2019) and the 130th most popular French Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Marcellin Champagnat ranks 1,542 out of 3,187. Before him are Kimpa Vita, Jean Daniélou, Federico Borromeo, Michael the Syrian, Andrew Dũng-Lạc, and Guillaume Dubois. After him are Julian Cesarini, Anna Schäffer, Alfred Loisy, Nicolaus Olahus, Nusaybah bint Ka'ab, and Hilarion of Kiev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Marcellin Champagnat ranks 18. Before him are Princess Charlotte of Denmark, Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel, Maria Szymanowska, Carl Gustav Carus, Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg, and John Martin. After him are Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, and Silvio Pellico. Among people deceased in 1840, Marcellin Champagnat ranks 27. Before him are Beau Brummell, Francisco de Paula Santander, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Pierre Dupont de l'Étang, and Nicholas Aylward Vigors. After him are John Cockerill, Karl Otfried Müller, Johann Michael Vogl, Frances Burney, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, and Dingane kaSenzangakhona.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcellin Champagnat ranks 2,554 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Rogier (1800), Eustache Le Sueur (1616), Guillaume Dubois (1656), Pierre Fournier (1906), Gérard Oury (1919), and Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon (1510). After him are Eric Abidal (1979), Henri Desgrange (1865), Theobald III, Count of Blois (1019), Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta (1772), Christophe Galtier (1966), and Marie-Claire Alain (1926).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In France

Among religious figures born in France, Marcellin Champagnat ranks 130. Before him are Maurice de Sully (1110), Madeleine Sophie Barat (1779), Mamertus (401), Hugh of Châteauneuf (1053), Jean Daniélou (1905), and Guillaume Dubois (1656). After him are Alfred Loisy (1857), Leodegar (616), Eugène de Mazenod (1782), Eucherius of Lyon (380), Charles Lavigerie (1825), and Emmeram of Regensburg (600).

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