RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Jacques Marquette

1637 - 1675

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Jacques Marquette, S.J. (French pronunciation: [ʒak maʁkɛt]; June 1, 1637 – May 18, 1675), sometimes known as Père Marquette or James Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Sainte Marie, and later founded Saint Ignace. In 1673, Marquette, with Louis Jolliet, an explorer born near Quebec City, was the first European to explore and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River Valley. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Marquette is the 2,180th most popular religious figure (down from 1,937th in 2019), the 3,352nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,194th in 2019) and the 179th most popular French Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Jacques Marquette ranks 2,180 out of 3,187. Before him are Charles Journet, Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow, Zenon Grocholewski, Saint Othmar, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, and Hilary of Arles. After him are Jehoiada, Antonio Marcello Barberini, Yahya ibn Ma'in, Jason of Thessalonica, Eznik of Kolb, and José Freire Falcão.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1637, Jacques Marquette ranks 11. Before him are Köprülüzade Fazıl Mustafa Pasha, Nicolas Catinat, Jan van der Heyden, Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau, and Anne Marie Martinozzi. After him is Edmund Andros. Among people deceased in 1675, Jacques Marquette ranks 19. Before him are Allaert van Everdingen, Gilles de Roberval, Gaspard Dughet, Brynjólfur Sveinsson, Michael van Langren, and Feodosia Morozova. After him are Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Andreas Hammerschmidt, August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Domenico II Contarini, Valentin Conrart, and Cort Adeler.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Marquette ranks 3,352 out of 6,770. Before him are François Isaac de Rivaz (1752), Robert Jonquet (1925), Suzanne Curchod (1737), Gaston Rébuffat (1921), Érik Comas (1963), and Hilary of Arles (401). After him are Jean-Paul Rappeneau (1932), Michel Marcel Navratil (1908), Lucien Simon (1861), Alphonse Beau de Rochas (1815), Mélanie Laurent (1983), and Agnes of Burgundy, Duchess of Aquitaine (995).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In France

Among religious figures born in France, Jacques Marquette ranks 179. Before him are Flodoard (894), Pasquier Quesnel (1634), Fernando Ocáriz Braña (1944), Pierre Pigneau de Behaine (1741), Wolfgang Capito (1478), and Hilary of Arles (401). After him are François de Tournon (1489), Jacques Hamel (1930), Bernard Panafieu (1931), Marie-Eugénie de Jésus (1817), Raël (1946), and Nicolas Trigault (1577).

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