# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-of-st-samson
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:04:14.099Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-of-st-samson"
name: "John of St. Samson"
slug: "john-of-st-samson"
description: "John of Saint Samson was a French Carmelite lay brother, mystic, spiritual director, poet, musician, and writer. Blind from early childhood, he became one of the principal spiritual figures of the Touraine Reform of the Carmelite Order in seventeenth-century France. He belonged to the Carmelite Order of the Ancient Observance, often called the Great Carmelites, and not to the Discalced Carmelites. He is often described in Carmelite tradition as the soul of the Touraine Reform, which emphasized prayer, silence, solitude, regular observance, fasting, the Divine Office, and interior recollection."
tagline: "French Carmelite mystic and spiritual writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ciego_tocando_la_zanfon%C3%ADa_(Georges_de_La_Tour).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1571-12-29"
deathDate: "1636"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.01
  momentum:             6.428571428571429
  historical:           5.274046666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_St._Samson"
    title: "John of St. Samson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AD%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "يوحنا القديس شمشون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_du_Moulin"
    title: "Jean du Moulin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_of_St._Samson"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_San_Sans%C3%B3n"
    title: "Juan de San Sansón"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_Saint-Samson"
    title: "Jean de Saint-Samson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3175682"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump