RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Marguerite Bays

1815 - 1879

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Marguerite Bays, OFS (8 September 1815 – 27 June 1879) was a Swiss seamstress and mystic. She lived a simple life as a member of the Secular Franciscan Order and adapted the tenets of the order's charism into her own life and social apostolate, especially after she was healed of bowel cancer on 8 December 1854. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marguerite Bays has received more than 102,805 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Marguerite Bays is the 2,522nd most popular religious figure (down from 2,339th in 2019), the 475th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 450th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Swiss Religious Figure.

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  • 48.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Marguerite Bays ranks 2,522 out of 3,187. Before her are Ísleifur Gissurarson, Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, James of Portugal, Jan Graubner, Filoimea Telito, and Wilfrid. After her are Sebastian Koto Khoarai, Aquilino Bocos Merino, Teemu Sippo, Odilo Scherer, William Wakefield Baum, and Thomas S. Monson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Marguerite Bays ranks 68. Before her are James Legge, Daniel Bashiel Warner, Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg, Karl von Blaas, Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, and Ernest Goüin. After her are Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov, Robert Franz, Paul Rudolf von Bilguer, John McDouall Stuart, Warren De la Rue, and Adolf Friedrich von Schack. Among people deceased in 1879, Marguerite Bays ranks 50. Before her are Immanuel Hermann Fichte, Lyuben Karavelov, Rowland Hill, William Lloyd Garrison, Johann von Lamont, and William Froude. After her are Édouard Spach, Jakob Stämpfli, Peter Arnold Heise, László Paál, Epameinondas Deligeorgis, and Edward Blore.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Marguerite Bays ranks 475 out of 1,015. Before her are Thomas Erastus (1524), Carlo Clerici (1929), Arnold Koller (1933), Kurt Furgler (1924), Martin Suter (1948), and Élisabeth Baume-Schneider (1963). After her are Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724), Johann Amman (1707), Urs Fischer (1966), Lionel Dunsterville (1865), Vreni Schneider (1964), and Alex Zülle (1968).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Switzerland

Among religious figures born in Switzerland, Marguerite Bays ranks 25. Before her are Georges Cottier (1922), Henri Schwery (1932), Maria Bernarda Bütler (1848), Pierre Viret (1511), Charles Journet (1891), and Conrad Grebel (1498). After her are Bernard Fellay (1958), Bruno Heim (1911), Paul Hinder (1942), and José Maria Larocca (1969).

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