RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Prosper Guéranger

1805 - 1875

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Prosper Louis Pascal Guéranger (pronounced [pʁɔspe ɡeʁɑ̃ʒe]; 4 April 1805, in Sablé-sur-Sarthe, France – 30 January 1875, in Solesmes, France) was a French priest and Benedictine monk, who served for nearly 40 years as the abbot of the monastery of Solesmes (which he founded among the ruins of a former priory at Solesmes). Through the new Abbey of Solesmes, he became the founder of the French Benedictine Congregation (now the Solesmes Congregation), which re-established Benedictine monastic life in France after it had been wiped out by the French Revolution. Guéranger was the author of The Liturgical Year, a popular commentary which covers every day of the Catholic Church's liturgical cycles in 15 volumes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Prosper Guéranger has received more than 91,843 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Prosper Guéranger is the 1,945th most popular religious figure (down from 1,805th in 2019), the 3,219th most popular biography from France (down from 3,079th in 2019) and the 166th most popular French Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Prosper Guéranger ranks 1,945 out of 3,187. Before him are Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Horus Sa, Marguerite Bourgeoys, Athenodorus of Byzantium, Anatolius of Laodicea, and Jarir ibn Atiyah. After him are Gisela, daughter of Louis the Pious, Athanasius I of Constantinople, Ignatius Moses I Daoud, Neophyte of Bulgaria, Julián Herranz Casado, and Fray Tomás de Berlanga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Prosper Guéranger ranks 38. Before him are Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Louise Bertin, Johann Friedrich Klotzsch, Auguste Barbier, Malek Jahan Khanom, and Alexander Braun. After him are Mastoureh Ardalan, Gabriel Bibron, John Lloyd Stephens, Johann Karl Rodbertus, Anton von Schmerling, and Alexander Karl, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg. Among people deceased in 1875, Prosper Guéranger ranks 47. Before him are Eugène Schneider, Marc Seguin, Charles Elliot, Charles Kingsley, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, and John C. Breckinridge. After him are Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, Petrache Poenaru, Johann Karl Rodbertus, Robert von Mohl, Richard Christopher Carrington, and Carl Jakob Sundevall.

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In France

Among people born in France, Prosper Guéranger ranks 3,219 out of 6,770. Before him are Anne of Burgundy (1404), Charles-Louis Havas (1783), Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620), Albert Lamorisse (1922), Charles-Louis Philippe (1874), and Jacques Villeret (1951). After him are Bernard Thévenet (1948), Michel Hazanavicius (1967), Sylvain Maréchal (1750), François Bayrou (1951), Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629), and Michel Blavet (1700).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In France

Among religious figures born in France, Prosper Guéranger ranks 166. Before him are François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis (1715), Bénézet (1165), J. F. Oberlin (1740), Peter Julian Eymard (1811), Jacques Marquette (1637), and Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620). After him are Flodoard (894), Richard Simon (1638), Érard de la Marck (1472), Louis Antoine de Noailles (1651), Marie-Joseph Lagrange (1855), and Jeanne Jugan (1792).

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