RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Marguerite Bays

1815 - 1879

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Marguerite Bays, OFS (8 September 1815 – 27 June 1879) was a Swiss seamstress and mystic. She lived a simple life as a member of the Secular Franciscan Order and adapted the tenets of the order's charism into her own life and social apostolate, especially after she was healed of bowel cancer on 8 December 1854. She was canonized by Pope Francis on 13 October, 2019. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marguerite Bays is the 2,492nd most popular religious figure (up from 2,516th in 2019), the 419th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 475th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Swiss Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Marguerite Bays ranks 2,492 out of 3,187. Before her are Daniel Sturla, Anastasius of Constantinople, Claude Fleury, Lorenzo Antonetti, José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, and Julio Terrazas Sandoval. After her are Hossein Wahid Khorasani, Alexandru Todea, Jeanne Jugan, Richard Hooker, Nicholas Charnetsky, and Franz Ehrle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Marguerite Bays ranks 59. Before her are Karl von Blaas, James B. Francis, Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, Mykhailo Verbytskyi, Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg, and Edward Forbes. After her are Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina, Henry Halleck, James Legge, Pavel Fedotov, Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg, and Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie. Among people deceased in 1879, Marguerite Bays ranks 42. Before her are Jean Baptiste Boisduval, Michel Chevalier, Begum Hazrat Mahal, Johann von Lamont, Sergey Solovyov, and Nikolai Zaremba. After her are Jeanne Jugan, Lyuben Karavelov, Aleksandr Baryatinsky, Miguel Grau Seminario, Immanuel Hermann Fichte, and Édouard Spach.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Marguerite Bays ranks 419 out of 1,015. Before her are Max Abegglen (1902), Roger Courtois (1912), Bernhard Russi (1948), François Le Fort (1656), Max Petitpierre (1899), and Thomas Erastus (1524). After her are René Felber (1933), Anita Traversi (1937), Johannes Müller Argoviensis (1828), Madeleine Berthod (1931), Kat Graham (1989), and Roger Vonlanthen (1930).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Switzerland

Among religious figures born in Switzerland, Marguerite Bays ranks 24. Before her are Maurice Bavaud (1916), Maria Bernarda Bütler (1848), Charles Journet (1891), Saint Othmar (689), Conrad Grebel (1498), and Pierre Viret (1511). After her are Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg (1445), Bernard Fellay (1958), Bruno Heim (1911), and Paul Hinder (1942).

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