RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Émilie de Villeneuve

1811 - 1854

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Émilie de Villeneuve (9 March 1811 – 2 October 1854) was a French Catholic nun and the founder of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception of Castres. After she died her cause of canonization was opened. She was beatified in 2009 after a miracle attributed to her intercession was ratified. She was approved for sainthood in 2014 and was canonized by Pope Francis on 17 May 2015. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Émilie de Villeneuve is the 1,994th most popular religious figure (down from 1,796th in 2019), the 3,052nd most popular biography from France (down from 2,989th in 2019) and the 161st most popular French Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Émilie de Villeneuve ranks 1,994 out of 3,187Before her are Turibius of Mogrovejo, Mang of Xia, Nguyễn Văn Thuận, Diodorus of Tarsus, Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans, and Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo. After her are Anthony of Kiev, Edward Cassidy, Ishaq ibn Ali, Patriarch Job of Moscow, Giovanni Colombo, and Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna.

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Among people born in 1811, Émilie de Villeneuve ranks 41Before her are Edward Dickinson Baker, Raden Saleh, Carlo Matteucci, Karel Jaromír Erben, Peter Julian Eymard, and Horace Greeley. After her are Sakuma Shōzan, J. C. Jacobsen, John William Draper, Ditlev Gothard Monrad, Giulia Grisi, and Princess Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. Among people deceased in 1854, Émilie de Villeneuve ranks 25Before her are Kamehameha III, Caroline of Hesse-Homburg, Nicolás Bravo, Arthur Aikin, Pierre Alphonse Laurent, and Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud. After her are Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, Macedonio Melloni, Abdullah Abdul Kadir, Vatroslav Lisinski, Silvio Pellico, and Maria Wirtemberska.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émilie de Villeneuve ranks 3,052 out of 6,770Before her are Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans (1698), Alain Bombard (1924), Albert Girard (1595), Guiraut Riquier (1230), Félix Gaillard (1919), and Henri Helle (1873). After her are André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819), Henri Laurens (1885), Marcel L'Herbier (1888), Charles Percier (1764), Jean-Louis Forain (1852), and Nasreddine Dinet (1861).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In France

Among religious figures born in France, Émilie de Villeneuve ranks 161Before her are Érard de la Marck (1472), Peter Julian Eymard (1811), Sulpitius the Pious (576), Emmeram of Regensburg (600), François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis (1715), and Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans (1698). After her are Julie Billiart (1751), Gershom ben Judah (960), Peter Fourier (1565), Jean-Pierre Ricard (1944), Prosper Guéranger (1805), and Audomar (600).