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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Pino Puglisi

1937 - 1993

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Giuseppe "Pino" Puglisi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpiːno puʎˈʎiːzi], Sicilian: [pʊɟˈɟiːsɪ]; 15 September 1937 – 15 September 1993) was a Roman Catholic priest in the rough Palermo neighbourhood of Brancaccio. He openly challenged the Sicilian Mafia who controlled the neighbourhood, and was killed by them on his 56th birthday. His life story has been retold in a book, Pino Puglisi, il prete che fece tremare la mafia con un sorriso (2013), and portrayed in a film, Come Into the Light (Italian original title Alla luce del sole) in 2005. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pino Puglisi has received more than 141,701 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Pino Puglisi is the 2,234th most popular religious figure (down from 1,935th in 2019), the 3,151st most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,991st in 2019) and the 479th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

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  • 48.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Pino Puglisi ranks 2,234 out of 2,238. Before him are António Ribeiro, Rubén Salazar Gómez, Mustafa Cerić, Gustav Adolf, Cardinal Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Ivan II of Bulgaria, and Paolo Romeo. After him are Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Geraldo Majella Agnelo, Herman of Alaska, Finnian of Clonard, Richard de Bury, and Sebastian Koto Khoarai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Pino Puglisi ranks 284. Before him are Moacyr Scliar, Merle Haggard, William Lombardy, Francisco Xavier do Amaral, Vitaly Zholobov, and George Chuvalo. After him are Rupiah Banda, Andrija Anković, Zhang Jie, Jørgen Leth, Yvonne Craig, and Jerry Weintraub. Among people deceased in 1993, Pino Puglisi ranks 161. Before him are Friedrich Dickel, Đuro Kurepa, Alexander Mackendrick, Anne Shirley, Jiří Hájek, and Mirza Ibrahimov. After him are Ian Stuart Donaldson, André Pilette, Mario Genta, Eugen Suchoň, Chris Hani, and Cesar Chavez.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pino Puglisi ranks 3,151 out of 4,668. Before him are Theodoric of Prague (1319), Pino Daniele (1955), Paolo Romeo (1938), Massimo Pallottino (1909), Nicola Larini (1964), and Titus Aebutius Elva (-600). After him are Carlo Di Palma (1925), Giuliano Bonfante (1904), Bruno Ruffo (1920), Dino Compagni (1255), Raoul Bova (1971), and Adalbert I, Margrave of Tuscany (820).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Pino Puglisi ranks 479. Before him are Eugenio Dal Corso (1939), Antonio Maria Vegliò (1938), Pio Laghi (1922), Niccolò Albergati (null), Giovanni de' Marignolli (1290), and Paolo Romeo (1938). After him are Giuseppe Merisi (1938), Antipope Theodoric (1100), Giuseppe Caprio (1914), Adeodato Giovanni Piazza (1884), Luigi Giuseppe Lasagna (1850), and Sergio Sebastiani (1931).

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