RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur

1626 - 1667

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Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur (or Betancourt) y Gonzáles, OFB (Spanish: Pedro de San José de Betancur y Gonzáles, 21 March 1626– 25 April 1667), also called Hermano Pedro de San José Betancurt (Brother Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur) or more simply Peter de Betancurt, Hermano Pedro (Brother Peter), Santo Hermano Pedro (Saint Brother Peter), or San Pedro de Vilaflor (Saint Peter of Vilaflor), was a Spanish saint and missionary in Guatemala. Known as the "Saint Francis of Assisi of the Americas", he is the first saint native to the Canary Islands. He left at the age of 23 for New Spain, and is considered the first saint of Guatemala and Central America for having done his missionary work in those American lands. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur has received more than 87,088 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur is the 777th most popular religious figure (down from 758th in 2019), the 295th most popular biography from Spain (down from 264th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Spanish Religious Figure.

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  • 87k

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  • 62.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur ranks 777 out of 3,187. Before him are Onesimus, Brother Roger, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Anna Göldi, Gerard of Csanád, and Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo. After him are Giovanni Battista Re, Nectarios of Aegina, Hemma of Gurk, Jean Mabillon, József Mindszenty, and Expeditus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1626, Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur ranks 8. Before him are Sabbatai Zevi, Jan Steen, Richard Cromwell, William II, Prince of Orange, Francesco Redi, and Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné. After him are Giovanni Legrenzi, Louis Couperin, Bada Shanren, John Aubrey, Andrea Guarneri, and Jan van Kessel the Elder. Among people deceased in 1667, Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur ranks 6. Before him are Pope Alexander VII, Francesco Borromini, Fatma Sultan, Gabriël Metsu, and Marie Louise Gonzaga. After him are Johann Jakob Froberger, Alonzo Cano, Nicolas Sanson, Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau, Peter Snayers, and Cornelis van Poelenburgh.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur ranks 295 out of 3,355. Before him are Al-Hakam I (770), Sancho IV of Castile (1258), Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1488), La Belle Otero (1868), Eusebi Güell (1846), and Carles Rexach (1947). After him are Isabella, Princess of Asturias (1851), Telmo Zarra (1921), Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964), Yolande of Aragon (1384), Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436), and Niceto Alcalá-Zamora (1877).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Spain

Among religious figures born in Spain, Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur ranks 22. Before him are Vincent Ferrer (1350), Josemaría Escrivá (1902), Joan Enric Vives Sicília (1949), Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía (1510), Eulalia of Mérida (290), and Raymond of Penyafort (1175). After him are Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436), Isidore the Laborer (1080), John of Ávila (1500), Al-Qurtubi (1214), Peter of Alcantara (1499), and Eulalia of Barcelona (290).

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