RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Giovanni Battista Scalabrini

1839 - 1905

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Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, CS (8 July 1839 – 1 June 1905) was an Italian Catholic missionary who served as Bishop of Piacenza from 1876 until his death. He was the founder of both the Missionaries of Saint Charles (also known as the Scalabrinians) and the Mission Sisters of Saint Charles. Scalabrini's rise to the rank of bishop came at a rapid pace due to a series of lectures he gave on the First Vatican Council in 1872 and his staunch dedication to catechism, which led Pope Pius IX to dub him the "Apostle of the Catechism"; successive popes Leo XIII and Pius X held him in high esteem and both failed to convince him to accept appointments as head of an archdiocese or as a cardinal. He made five pastoral visits across his diocese which proved to be an exhaustive but effective mission of evangelization and his efforts at reforming seminaries and pastoral initiatives earned him praise even from the secular detractors who criticized him for his strict obedience to the pope. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini is the 1,893rd most popular religious figure (up from 2,504th in 2019), the 2,487th most popular biography from Italy (up from 3,431st in 2019) and the 440th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Giovanni Battista Scalabrini ranks 1,893 out of 3,187. Before him are Carlo Furno, John of Shanghai and San Francisco, Juraj Križanić, Alexandrina of Balazar, Maximilian Henry of Bavaria, and Luigi Sturzo. After him are James Alberione, John Gualbert, José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez, Giacomo Antonelli, Al-Baqillani, and Polyeuctus of Constantinople.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Giovanni Battista Scalabrini ranks 41. Before him are Imre Steindl, Ouida, Takasugi Shinsaku, Hermann Levi, Otto Finsch, and Béni Kállay. After him are Hans Thoma, Hermann Hankel, Nikolai Linevich, Pōmare V, Joseph Oller, and Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì. Among people deceased in 1905, Giovanni Battista Scalabrini ranks 43. Before him are Infanta Amalia of Spain, Clément Juglar, Josip Belušić, José-Maria de Heredia, George Williams, and Franz Reuleaux. After him are Julius Oppert, Franz Overbeck, Amalie Skram, Mary Mapes Dodge, Jean-Jacques Henner, and Máximo Gómez.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Scalabrini ranks 2,487 out of 5,161. Before him are Luigi Sturzo (1871), Riccardo Zandonai (1883), Giovanni di Paolo (1403), Giuseppe Moioli (1927), William II, Duke of Athens (1312), and Gabriele Veneziano (1942). After him are John Gualbert (995), Enrico Betti (1823), Osvaldo Cavandoli (1920), Rainier II, Lord of Monaco (1325), Simonetta Stefanelli (1954), and Giorgio Chiellini (1984).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Scalabrini ranks 440. Before him are Joseph the Hymnographer (816), Pietro Aldobrandini (1571), Domenico Calcagno (1943), Francesco Montenegro (1946), Carlo Furno (1921), and Luigi Sturzo (1871). After him are John Gualbert (995), Antonio Bacci (1885), Dagobert of Pisa (1100), Crescenzio Sepe (1943), Sergio Sebastiani (1931), and Chromatius (335).

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