# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-clergue
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:29:44.684Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-clergue"
name: "Léon Clergue"
slug: "leon-clergue"
description: "François-Léon Clergue – in religion Marie-Antoine de Lavaur – was a French Roman Catholic priest and professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He became a popular priest who attracted large crowds when he would preach; he preached around 700 itinerant missions in southern France which would earn him a nickname as the \"Apostle of the South\". He is also credited with the development of pilgrimages to the shrine in Lourdes where he often visited to preach and to tend to the visiting pilgrims. He was a traditionalist who railed against secularist influences and remained in France in 1880 when religious orders were expelled to other European nations; he remained in his deserted convent earning him respect from the authorities who refused to expel him due to his popular rapport with the locals."
tagline: "French priest (1825-1907)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Denkmal_P%C3%A9re_Marie_Antoine.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1825-12-23"
deathDate: "1907-02-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.3
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.606264
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC"
    title: "ليون كليرج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-L%C3%A9on_Clergue"
    title: "François-Léon Clergue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Antoine_de_Lavaur"
    title: "Marie-Antoine de Lavaur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-L%C3%A9on_Clergue"
    title: "François-Léon Clergue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-L%C3%A9on_Clergue"
    title: "François-Léon Clergue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3270831"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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