RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Melchior Grodziecki

1584 - 1619

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Melchior Grodziecki (c. 1582 – 7 September 1619) was a Silesian Jesuit priest. He is considered a martyr and saint by the Catholic Church. He was canonized in 1995 and is liturgically commemorated on 19 January. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Melchior Grodziecki is the 2,026th most popular religious figure (down from 1,753rd in 2019), the 365th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 333rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Czech Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Melchior Grodziecki ranks 2,026 out of 3,187Before him are Josef Beran, Eugenios Voulgaris, Jeralean Talley, Baba Sali, Richard of Chichester, and Saint Pothinus. After him are Pietro Ottoboni, Photius II of Constantinople, Cassian of Imola, Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Janaka, and Giuseppe Maria Tomasi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1584, Melchior Grodziecki ranks 13Before him are Yuan Chonghuan, Matthias Gallas, John II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Cornelis de Vos, Gaspar de Crayer, and Mehmed III Giray. After him are Herman Wrangel, Francis Beaumont, Caspar Barlaeus, Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, Hu Zhengyan, and Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg. Among people deceased in 1619, Melchior Grodziecki ranks 18Before him are Diane de France, Hieronymus Fabricius, Jagat Gosain, Stephen Pongracz, Marko Krizin, and Denis Calvaert. After him are Robert Peake the Elder, Öküz Mehmed Pasha, Richard Burbage, Olivier de Serres, and Samuel Daniel.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Melchior Grodziecki ranks 365 out of 1,200Before him are Josef Škvorecký (1924), Petr Chelčický (1390), Josef Beran (1888), Jiří Kylián (1947), Václav Talich (1883), and Tom Stoppard (1937). After him are Fritz Mauthner (1849), Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe (1868), Marta Kubišová (1942), Christian Mayer (1719), Zdeněk Fierlinger (1891), and Gabriel von Max (1840).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Czechia

Among religious figures born in Czechia, Melchior Grodziecki ranks 15Before him are Gorazd (1879), Miloslav Vlk (1932), Procopius of Sázava (970), Zdislava Berka (1215), Anne of Bohemia, Duchess of Silesia (1204), and Josef Beran (1888). After him are Maria Restituta Kafka (1894), Franziskus von Paula Graf von Schönborn (1844), Friedrich Gustav Piffl (1864), Vladimír Holan (1905), John Neumann (1811), and Jan Graubner (1948).