RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Maria Celeste

1600 - 1634

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Sister Maria Celeste (born Virginia Gamba; 16 August 1600 – 2 April 1634) was an Italian nun. She was the illegitimate daughter of the scientist Galileo Galilei and Marina Gamba. After Galileo's death, 124 letters from Maria Celeste written between 1623 and 1633 were discovered among his papers. Galileo's responses to his daughter have been lost. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maria Celeste is the 1,476th most popular religious figure (down from 1,153rd in 2019), the 1,976th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,679th in 2019) and the 388th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Maria Celeste ranks 1,476 out of 3,187. Before her are Isidore of Pelusium, Ibn Babawayh, Claudio Gugerotti, Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria, Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko, and William of St-Thierry. After her are Palladius, Walter Brandmüller, Bernard of Menthon, Lucian Mureșan, Hyacinth of Poland, and Tim Keller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1600, Maria Celeste ranks 13. Before her are Marie de Rohan, False Dmitry II, Nicolas Sanson, Simeon Bekbulatovich, Gabriel Naudé, and Cristóbal de Morales. After her are Giovanna Garzoni, Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, Kuchum, Malyuta Skuratov, Lourenço Marques, and Jacques Blanchard. Among people deceased in 1634, Maria Celeste ranks 6. Before her are Albrecht von Wallenstein, Hendrick Avercamp, Adriano Banchieri, Ligdan Khan, and Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. After her are Urbain Grandier, John Marston, António de Andrade, John Albert Vasa, Sophia of Holstein-Gottorp, and John Webster.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Maria Celeste ranks 1,976 out of 5,161. Before her are Cristoforo Landino (1424), Agostino Depretis (1813), Archestratus (-350), Marisa Pavan (1932), Eleonora Giorgi (1953), and Contessina de' Bardi (1390). After her are Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este (1776), Antonio Possevino (1533), Luigi Musso (1924), Giuseppe Mercalli (1850), Viridis Visconti (1352), and Giambattista Benedetti (1530).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Maria Celeste ranks 388. Before her are Mario Zenari (1946), Luigi Orione (1872), Sebastiano Baggio (1913), Angelo Bagnasco (1943), Gianfranco Ravasi (1942), and Claudio Gugerotti (1955). After her are Hripsime (300), Oliviero Carafa (1430), Angelo De Donatis (1954), Antipope Sylvester IV (1100), Ranuccio Farnese (1530), and Domenico Tardini (1888).

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