Religion
601 famous people found
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Lucien Louis BONAPARTE
French cardinal
1828 - 1895 -
Matthieu RICARD
French writer and Buddhist monk
1946 -
Philippe BARBARIN
French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
1950 -
Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET
French bishop
1664 - 1743 -
Jeanne D'ARC
Folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint
1412 - 1431 -
Thérèse de LISIEUX
French Carmelite nun
1873 - 1897 -
RICHELIEU
French clergyman, noble, and statesman
1585 - 1642 -
Bernadette SOUBIROUS
French miller's daughter, she was canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church in 1933
1844 - 1879 -
ABBé PIERRE
French Catholic priest
1912 - 2007 -
Jacques MARQUETTE
French-Canadian Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement
1637 - 1675 -
Jacques Gaillot
French Catholic clergyman and social activist
1935 - 2023 -
Albert DECOURTRAY
French Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Lyon
1923 - 1994 -
Soeur ANDRÉ
French supercentenarian
1904 - 2023 -
Gérald CAUSSÉ
Presiding Bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1963 -
Gilbert SOURY
French priest
1732 - 1810 -
CLEMENT VII
French cardinals who opposed Urban VI, and was the first antipope of the Avignon papacy
1342 - 1394 -
CLEMENT VI
Pope from 7 May 1342 to his death in 1352
1291 - 1352 -
BENOIT XII
Pope from 20 December 1334 to his death in 1342
1280 - 1342 -
François DE SALES
Bishop of Geneva, saint in the Catholic Church
1567 - 1622 -
Rose-Philippine Duchesne
French religious sister and educator whom Pope John Paul II canonized in 1988
1769 - 1852