RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Saturnin

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Saturnin of Toulouse (Latin: Saturninus, Occitan: Sarnin, French: Saturnin, Sernin, Catalan: Serni, Sadurní, Galician: Sadurninho and Portuguese: Saturnino, Sadurninho, Basque: Satordi, Saturdi, Zernin, and Spanish: Saturnino, Serenín, Cernín) was one of the "Apostles to the Gauls" sent out (probably under the direction of Pope Fabian, 236–250) during the consulate of Decius and Gratus (250–251) to Christianise Gaul after the persecutions under Emperor Decius had all but dissolved the small Christian communities. Fabian sent out seven bishops from Rome to Gaul to preach the Gospel: Gatien to Tours, Trophimus to Arles, Paul to Narbonne, Saturnin to Toulouse, Denis to Paris, Austromoine to Clermont, and Martial to Limoges. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saturnin has received more than 111,241 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Saturnin is the 860th most popular religious figure (down from 850th in 2019), the 250th most popular biography from Greece (down from 243rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Greek Religious Figure.

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.34

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  • 2.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Saturnin ranks 860 out of 3,187Before him are Mesud II, Rashid Rida, Alessandro Valignano, Jean-Louis Tauran, Antipope John XVI, and Louise de Marillac. After him are Saint Emeric of Hungary, Basil Fool for Christ, Julia Pastrana, Al-Bayhaqi, Peter of Verona, and Mata Amritanandamayi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 300, Saturnin ranks 20Before him are Erasmus of Formia, Expeditus, Vātsyāyana, Hormizd II, Volusianus, and Zeno of Verona. After him are Carausius, Antipope Felix II, Bahram III, Cyriacus, Victorinus, and Pope Peter I of Alexandria. Among people deceased in 300, Saturnin ranks 4Before him are Diophantus, Saint Christopher, and Sasan. After him are Bhāsa, Meng Huo, Ma Dai, Sabellius, Achilles Tatius, Minervina, Xenophon of Ephesus, and Saint Martial.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Saturnin ranks 250 out of 1,024Before him are Theodore Stratelates (281), Katerina Sakellaropoulou (1956), Hypereides (-390), Memnon of Rhodes (-380), Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark (1905), and Nabis (-300). After him are Hipparchus (-600), Antonia the Elder (-39), Matthew Kantakouzenos (1325), Agnodice (-400), Kyriakos Mitsotakis (1968), and Philopoemen (-253).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Greece

Among religious figures born in Greece, Saturnin ranks 15Before him are Pope Hyginus (100), Pope Eleutherius (171), Saint Giles (640), Athenagoras I of Constantinople (1886), Athenagoras of Athens (133), and Theodore Stratelates (281). After him are Cyril Lucaris (1572), Nicholas Kabasilas (1322), Aristides of Athens (150), Gregory V of Constantinople (1745), Joseph II of Constantinople (1360), and Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem (1952).