RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Saint Homobonus

1117 - 1197

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Saint Homobonus (Italian: Sant'Omobono, German: Sankt Gutmann, Lombard: San Mobon) is the patron saint of business people, tailors, shoemakers, and clothworkers, as well as of Cremona, Italy. He was canonized in 1199 at the urgent request of the citizens of Cremona. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saint Homobonus has received more than 272,509 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Saint Homobonus is the 1,230th most popular religious figure (up from 1,249th in 2019), the 1,792nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,826th in 2019) and the 349th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

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  • 270k

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  • 57.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Saint Homobonus ranks 1,230 out of 3,187Before him are William Booth, Marc Ouellet, Saichō, Nikolaj Velimirović, Jozef Tomko, and 'Abd Allah ibn Rawahah. After him are Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Maria Domenica Mazzarello, Peter the Venerable, Cristóvão Ferreira, Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, and Ahijah the Shilonite.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1117, Saint Homobonus ranks 2Before him is Alain de Lille.  Among people deceased in 1197, Saint Homobonus ranks 5Before him are Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Henry II, Count of Champagne, Margaret of France, Queen of England and Hungary, and Peter II of Bulgaria. After him are Bretislav III, Margaritus of Brindisi, Gertrude of Bavaria, William de Longchamp, and Rhys ap Gruffydd.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Saint Homobonus ranks 1,792 out of 5,161Before him are Emilio de' Cavalieri (1550), Princess Luisa Carlotta of Naples and Sicily (1804), Giulio Alberoni (1664), Marie Anne Mancini (1649), Elizabeth of Sicily, Queen of Hungary (1261), and Antonio Corradini (1688). After him are Serge Reggiani (1922), Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (1947), Leonarda Cianciulli (1893), Eugénie de Beauharnais (1808), Charles I, Lord of Monaco (1300), and Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio (-181).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Saint Homobonus ranks 349Before him are Raffaele Riario (1461), Vincent Pallotti (1795), Zita (1212), Francesco Barberini (1597), Carlo Maria Viganò (1941), and Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet (1588). After him are Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows (1838), Maria Domenica Mazzarello (1837), Vitalis of Milan (null), Giuseppe Bertello (1942), Ercole Consalvi (1757), and Pietro I Orseolo (928).