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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Stanislaus Kostka

1550 - 1568

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Stanisław Kostka S.J. (28 October 1550 – 15 August 1568) was a Polish novice of the Society of Jesus. He is venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Stanislaus Kostka (as distinct from his namesake, the 11th-century Bishop of Kraków Stanislaus the Martyr). He was born at Rostkowo, Przasnysz County, Poland, on 28 October 1550, and died in Rome during the night of 14–15 August 1568. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stanislaus Kostka has received more than 279,965 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Stanislaus Kostka is the 903rd most popular religious figure (down from 832nd in 2019), the 236th most popular biography from Poland (down from 229th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Religious Figure.

Stanislaus Kostka was a Polish Jesuit who is most famous for founding the Society of Jesus.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Stanislaus Kostka ranks 903 out of 2,238Before him are Eulalia of Barcelona, Anthony de Mello, Maria Cristina of Savoy, Wasil ibn Ata, Pierre Cauchon, and Antipope John VIII. After him are Rose Kennedy, Cyril Lucaris, Priscillian, Saint Sabina, Blessed Gerard, and Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1550, Stanislaus Kostka ranks 12Before him are Henry I, Duke of Guise, Camillus de Lellis, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Jang-geum, John Davis, and Karin Månsdotter. After him are Jacobus Gallus, Do-Aklin, Giorgio Basta, Emilio de' Cavalieri, Damat Ibrahim Pasha, and Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia. Among people deceased in 1568, Stanislaus Kostka ranks 7Before him are Elisabeth of Valois, Carlos, Prince of Asturias, Jean Parisot de Valette, Albert, Duke of Prussia, Lamoral, Count of Egmont, and Jacques Arcadelt. After him are Andrés de Urdaneta, Sophie of Pomerania, Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn, Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Christoph, Duke of Württemberg, and Nicolaus Olahus.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Stanislaus Kostka ranks 236 out of 1,454Before him are Władysław II the Exile (1105), Alexander Bogdanov (1873), Gunderic (379), Otto Klemperer (1885), Eberhard von Mackensen (1889), and Georg Forster (1754). After him are Przemysł II (1257), Rüdiger von der Goltz (1865), Władysław I Herman (1043), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), Dieter Wisliceny (1911), and Akiba Rubinstein (1880).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Poland

Among religious figures born in Poland, Stanislaus Kostka ranks 9Before him are Faustina Kowalska (1905), Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906), Saint Casimir (1458), Angelus Silesius (1624), Itzhak Stern (1901), and Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030). After him are Stefan Wyszyński (1901), Jerzy Popiełuszko (1947), Hyacinth of Poland (1185), Lubomyr Husar (1933), Stanisław Dziwisz (1939), and Wolf Messing (1899).