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Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas

1843 - 1927

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Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, OP (4 October 1843 – 25 March 1927) was a Palestinian Catholic nun who founded the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of Jerusalem (the Rosary Sisters), the first Palestinian religious congregation. She was beatified by Archbishop Angelo Amato on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI in 2009. On 6 December 2014, Pope Francis recognized a miracle that had been attributed to her intercession, a requirement for her canonization. The date of her canonization was announced, alongside others, on 14 February 2015 and she was canonized on 17 May 2015. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas is the 2,654th most popular religious figure (down from 2,497th in 2019), the 256th most popular biography from Israel (up from 267th in 2019) and the 56th most popular Israeli Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas ranks 2,654 out of 3,187Before her are Marek Jędraszewski, Al-Wathiq I, Harsiese A, Ulf Ekman, Bernard Fellay, and Lobsang Yeshe, 5th Panchen Lama. After her are Henry Edward Manning, Samson of Dol, Julijans Vaivods, Maatkare Mutemhat, Zabaia, and Zygmunt Gorazdowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas ranks 79Before her are Itō Sukeyuki, Harald Høffding, Nadezhda Suslova, Henri Regnault, Marcel Deprez, and Charles Conrad Abbott. After her are Petko Karavelov, Higinio Uriarte, Moritz Pasch, Georg von Rosen, Fazlullah Nouri, and Patricio Escobar. Among people deceased in 1927, Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas ranks 107Before her are Constance Markievicz, Sakina Akhundzadeh, David Arellano, Georges Eekhoud, Friedrich Reinitzer, and Charles Warren. After her are Klaus Berntsen, János Csernoch, Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, Fernand de Langle de Cary, and Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas ranks 256 out of 466Before her are Yaakov Neeman (1939), Nir Barkat (1959), David Deutsch (1953), Ilanit (1947), Ayelet Zurer (1969), and Talal Abu-Ghazaleh (1938). After her are Ron Arad (1951), Bar Refaeli (1985), Rika Zaraï (1938), Nahum Stelmach (1936), Mohammad Bakri (1953), and Esther Hayut (1953).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Israel

Among religious figures born in Israel, Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas ranks 56Before her are Angelus of Jerusalem (1185), Procopius of Scythopolis (250), Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (1522), John of Patmos (50), Michel Sabbah (1933), and Narcissus of Jerusalem (95).