RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Andrew Bobola

1591 - 1657

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Andrew Bobola, SJ (Polish: Andrzej Bobola; 1591 – 16 May 1657) was a Polish missionary and martyr of the Society of Jesus, known as the Apostle of Lithuania and the "hunter of souls". He was beaten and tortured to death during the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrew Bobola is the 1,875th most popular religious figure (down from 1,327th in 2019), the 574th most popular biography from Poland (down from 430th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Polish Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Andrew Bobola ranks 1,875 out of 3,187. Before him are Gregorio Barbarigo, Joseph the Hymnographer, Nephon II of Constantinople, Gilberto Agustoni, Pietro Aldobrandini, and Lokaksema. After him are Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Manuel Clemente, Pandita Ramabai, Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz, Marie Laveau, and Domenico Calcagno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1591, Andrew Bobola ranks 15. Before him are Stanisław Koniecpolski, Valentin de Boulogne, Isabella of Savoy, Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Olimpia Maidalchini, and Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Lorraine. After him are Friedrich Spee, Dirck Hals, Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, Johann von Werth, George William, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, and Anne Hutchinson. Among people deceased in 1657, Andrew Bobola ranks 18. Before him are Kâtip Çelebi, Olimpia Maidalchini, Laura Mancini, Robert Blake, Hayashi Razan, and Jacob van Eyck. After him are Dilras Banu Begum, Johann Baptist Cysat, Evert van Aelst, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, and John Lilburne.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Andrew Bobola ranks 574 out of 1,694. Before him are Bolesław the Pious (1225), Stanisław Konarski (1700), Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov (1793), Zbigniew Preisner (1955), Edward Ochab (1906), and Joseph Serchuk (1919). After him are George Adamski (1891), Kurt Goldstein (1878), Yitzhak Sadeh (1890), Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1801), Henryk Kasperczak (1946), and Duchess Amelia of Württemberg (1799).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Poland

Among religious figures born in Poland, Andrew Bobola ranks 23. Before him are Joachim Meisner (1933), Hyacinth of Poland (1185), Wolf Messing (1899), Stanisława Leszczyńska (1896), Emil Krebs (1867), and John Albert Vasa (1612). After him are Caspar Schwenckfeld (1490), Moses Isserles (1520), Kazimierz Nycz (1950), Stanislaus Hosius (1504), Jan Sarkander (1576), and Jan Łaski (1499).

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