RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Marcellin Champagnat

1789 - 1840

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Marcellin Joseph Benedict Champagnat, FMS (20 May 1789 – 6 June 1840) was a French Catholic priest who founded of the Marist Brothers, a religious congregation of brothers devoted to Mary and dedicated to education. He was canonized in 1999 and his feast day is 6 June, his death anniversary. Champagnat was born in the year of the storming of the Bastille, the start of the French Revolution. The religious, political, economic, and social unrest of the times he lived influenced his priorities and life path. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marcellin Champagnat is the 1,450th most popular religious figure (up from 1,542nd in 2019), the 2,152nd most popular biography from France (up from 2,554th in 2019) and the 111th most popular French Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Marcellin Champagnat ranks 1,450 out of 3,187. Before him are Macrina the Younger, John Eudes, Khabbab ibn al-Aratt, Sebastiano Baggio, Theodosius the Cenobiarch, and Chrodegang. After him are Abbé Faria, Clemens August of Bavaria, Beatrice of Silva, Adam Rainer, Isaac of Armenia, and Cyril Lucaris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Marcellin Champagnat ranks 18. Before him are Heinrich Schwabe, Maria Szymanowska, Abbas Mirza, Carl Gustav Carus, Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel, and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. After him are Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg, Friedrich Boie, John Martin, Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, William Cranch Bond, and George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Among people deceased in 1840, Marcellin Champagnat ranks 23. Before him are Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, Carl Ludvig Engel, Francisco de Paula Santander, Maria Beatrice of Savoy, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, and Beau Brummell. After him are Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, and Anne Lister.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcellin Champagnat ranks 2,152 out of 6,770. Before him are John Eudes (1601), Adolphe Monticelli (1824), Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (1557), Yasmina Reza (1959), Hervé Villechaize (1943), and Jean-Pierre Thiollet (1956). After him are Louis I, Count of Blois (1172), Franck Pourcel (1913), Philippe Leroy (1930), Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly (1508), Luigi Federico Menabrea (1809), and François-Xavier Ortoli (1925).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In France

Among religious figures born in France, Marcellin Champagnat ranks 111. Before him are Jean Calas (1698), François de la Chaise (1624), Henri Estienne (1528), Peter Nolasco (1180), William de Longchamp (1101), and John Eudes (1601). After him are Bernard of Menthon (923), Lothair II of Italy (1000), Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877), Robert Estienne (1503), Mamertus (401), and Guillaume Dubois (1656).

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