RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Marie of the Incarnation

1599 - 1672

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Marie of the Incarnation, OSU (28 October 1599 – 30 April 1672) was a French Ursuline nun. As part of a group of nuns sent to New France (Quebec) to establish the Ursuline Order, Marie was crucial in the spread of Catholicism in New France. She was a religious author and has been credited with founding the first girls' school in the New World. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie of the Incarnation has received more than 5,292 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Marie of the Incarnation is the 2,263rd most popular religious figure (down from 2,110th in 2019), the 3,772nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,604th in 2019) and the 191st most popular French Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Marie of the Incarnation ranks 2,263 out of 3,187Before her are Giulio Alenio, José Freire Falcão, Francis Solanus, Vincenzo Carafa, Theodore Edgar McCarrick, and Ida Siekmann. After her are Ricardo Blázquez, Jean-Baptiste Janssens, János Csernoch, Luis Héctor Villalba, Antonio Maria Vegliò, and Zenobius of Florence.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1599, Marie of the Incarnation ranks 18Before her are Andrea Sacchi, John Berchmans, Robert Blake, Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, Prasat Thong, and Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé.  Among people deceased in 1672, Marie of the Incarnation ranks 16Before her are Adil Giray, Adriaen van de Velde, Madeleine Béjart, Anne Marie Martinozzi, Pierre Séguier, and François de La Mothe Le Vayer. After her are Guy Patin, Friedrich Wilhelm III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Georg Stiernhielm, Anne Bradstreet, Pedro Calungsod, and Francis Willughby.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marie of the Incarnation ranks 3,772 out of 6,770Before her are Frank Leboeuf (1968), Nicolas Jenson (1420), Joachim Barrande (1799), Bruno Coulais (1954), François Chabot (1756), and Martin Guerre (1524). After her are Maurice Paléologue (1859), Antoine Vollon (1833), Jacques Dufilho (1914), Constance Mayer (1775), Albert Taillandier (1879), and Albert Capellani (1874).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In France

Among religious figures born in France, Marie of the Incarnation ranks 191Before her are Michel Garicoïts (1797), Claude Fleury (1640), Jean-Pierre Ricard (1944), Louis Bourdaloue (1632), Christophe Pierre (1946), and Marie-Dominique Chenu (1895). After her are Chlodulf of Metz (null), Philibert of Jumièges (608), Laurent-Joseph-Marius Imbert (1796), François de Laval (1623), Nicolas Trigault (1577), and Jean de Brébeuf (1593).