# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pere-marie-benoit
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:40:55.615Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pere-marie-benoit"
name: "Père Marie-Benoît"
slug: "pere-marie-benoit"
description: "Père Marie-Benoît was born Pierre Péteul. As a Capuchin Franciscan friar he helped smuggle approximately 4,000 Jews into safety from Nazi-occupied Southern France. On 1 December 1966, he was honored with the Medal of the Righteous among the Nations for his courage and self-sacrifice. His actions to save Jews during the Holocaust were the reason for his epithet Father of the Jews."
tagline: "French Righteous Among the Nations (1895–1990)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/P%C3%A8re_Marie-Beno%C3%AEt.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1895-03-30"
deathDate: "1990-02-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.881678666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Beno%C3%AEt_Peteul"
    title: "Marie-Benoît Peteul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "بير مارى بينوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_Marie-Beno%C3%AEt"
    title: "Père Marie-Benoît"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_Marie-Beno%C3%AEt"
    title: "Père Marie-Benoît"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_Marie-Beno%C3%AEt"
    title: "Père Marie-Benoît"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_Marie-Beno%C3%AEt"
    title: "Père Marie-Benoît"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%90%D7%91_%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99-%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%90%D7%94"
    title: "האב מארי-בנואה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Benedetto"
    title: "Maria Benedetto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_Maria_Benedictus"
    title: "Abbas Maria Benedictus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555574"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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