RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Mary MacKillop

1842 - 1909

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Mary Helen MacKillop RSJ (in religion Mary of the Cross; 15 January 1842 – 8 August 1909) was an Australian religious sister of Scottish descent. She was born in Melbourne but is best known for her activities in South Australia. Together with Fr Julian Tenison-Woods, she founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (the Josephites), a congregation of religious sisters that established a number of schools and welfare institutions throughout Australia and New Zealand, with an emphasis on education for the rural poor. The process to have MacKillop declared a saint began in the 1920s, and she was beatified in January 1995 by Pope John Paul II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary MacKillop has received more than 1,103,602 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Mary MacKillop is the 2,897th most popular religious figure (down from 2,516th in 2019), the 291st most popular biography from Australia (down from 233rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Australian Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Mary MacKillop ranks 2,897 out of 3,187. Before her are Wovoka, Robert Zollitsch, Chandramukhi Basu, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, William H. Keeler, and Cosmo Gordon Lang. After her are Nechtan nepos Uerb, Youssef Rzouga, Joseph Werth, Vissarion, Johannes Weiss, and Wahiduddin Khan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Mary MacKillop ranks 95. Before her are Alphons Czibulka, Calixa Lavallée, Albert Ladenburg, Charles W. Alcock, Nikolai Menshutkin, and Agnes Mary Clerke. After her are Mary Putnam Jacobi, Édouard Louis Trouessart, João Barbosa Rodrigues, Robert Collett, Charles Lapworth, and Henry Hyndman. Among people deceased in 1909, Mary MacKillop ranks 95. Before her are Clorinda Matto de Turner, Petre S. Aurelian, Peter Lesgaft, Francis Marion Crawford, Lina Morgenstern, and Sarah Orne Jewett. After her are João Barbosa Rodrigues, Oliver Otis Howard, Bertha Townsend, and Edward Everett Hale.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Mary MacKillop ranks 291 out of 1,143. Before her are Lenka (1978), Andrew Lesnie (1956), John Devitt (1937), Simone Young (1961), Ben Chifley (1885), and Joseph Lyons (1879). After her are Michael Jeffery (1937), Edgar Moon (1904), Helen Gourlay (1946), Arthur Fadden (1894), Daphne Akhurst (1903), and Lyn McClements (1951).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Australia

Among religious figures born in Australia, Mary MacKillop ranks 5. Before her are Truganini (1812), Edward Cassidy (1924), George Pell (1941), and James Harrison (1936). After her are Edward Clancy (1923), Norman Thomas Gilroy (1896), Peter Hollingworth (1935), Mitchell Johnson (1981), Thijs Nijhuis (1992), Brisa Hennessy (1999), and Ethan Ewing (1998).

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