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Julie Billiart

1751 - 1816

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Julie Billiart, SNDdeN (12 July 1751 – 8 April 1816) was a French Catholic nun, educator, and cofounder of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. She was born in Cuvilly, a village in Picardy, in northern France. She was paralyzed and bedridden for 22 years, but was well known for her prayer, her embroidery skills, and her education of both the poor and the nobility, especially her work with young girls. She had to flee Cuvilly after the start of the French Revolution and escaped to Compiègne, where the stress she experienced resulted in another illness that took away her ability to speak, and where she received a vision foretelling that she would found a new religious congregation that would eventually become the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Julie Billiart is the 2,005th most popular religious figure (up from 2,040th in 2019), the 3,075th most popular biography from France (up from 3,397th in 2019) and the 162nd most popular French Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Julie Billiart ranks 2,005 out of 3,187. Before her are Giovanni Colombo, Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna, Jacob, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Theodor Innitzer, Stanislaus Hosius, and Enrico Dante. After her are Pedro Barreto, Friar Julian, John Scholasticus, Alexius of Constantinople, Gershom ben Judah, and Carlo Acutis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1751, Julie Billiart ranks 21. Before her are Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange, Clement Mary Hofbauer, Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. After her are François Joseph Westermann, Johann Heinrich Voss, Uesugi Harunori, Anders Dahl, William Roxburgh, and Johan Henric Kellgren. Among people deceased in 1816, Julie Billiart ranks 20. Before her are Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow, Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Christiane Vulpius, Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Constantine Ypsilantis, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. After her are Countess Palatine Christiane Henriette of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Dorothea Viehmann, Frederick Augustus, Duke of Nassau, Hipólito Ruiz López, Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Dorothea Jordan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Julie Billiart ranks 3,075 out of 6,770. Before her are Catulle Mendès (1841), Henri Callot (1875), Adrien Proust (1834), Étienne Decroux (1898), Hilaire Belloc (1870), and Antoine de Chézy (1718). After her are Jean Fernel (1497), Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol (1786), Louis Rosier (1905), Charles Despiau (1874), Marie-José Nat (1940), and Gershom ben Judah (960).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In France

Among religious figures born in France, Julie Billiart ranks 162. Before her are Peter Julian Eymard (1811), Sulpitius the Pious (576), Emmeram of Regensburg (600), François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis (1715), Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans (1698), and Émilie de Villeneuve (1811). After her are Gershom ben Judah (960), Peter Fourier (1565), Jean-Pierre Ricard (1944), Prosper Guéranger (1805), Audomar (600), and Bénézet (1165).

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