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The Church of Quo Vadis, near the Catacombs of Saint Callistus, contains a stone in which Jesus' footprints from this event are supposedly preserved, though this was apparently an ex-voto from a pilgrim, and indeed a copy of the original housed in the Basilica of St Sebastian. The death of Peter is attested to by Tertullian (c. 155 – c. 240 ...
Peter of Verona (1205 – April 6, 1252), also known as Saint Peter Martyr and Saint Peter of Verona, was a 13th-century Italian Catholic priest. He was a Dominican friar and a celebrated preacher. He served as Inquisitor in Lombardy , was killed by an assassin, and was canonized as a Catholic saint 11 months after his death, making this the ...
In fact, among the canonized saints, Saint Peter of Betancur is the one usually used to represent the entire Canary archipelago. [16] This has caused him to be proposed in recent times by different political and religious authorities as a co-patron or secondary patron of the Canary Islands.
Highly educated, Peter became head of the school of Alexandria. [3] In early 300, while on his death bed, Theonas advised the church leaders to choose Peter as his successor, which they did. Peter's time as bishop included the Diocletianic Persecution, which began in 303, and continued intermittently over the next ten years. Forced into exile ...
Saint Peter Claver (1580–1654) Saint Peter Fourier (1565–1640) Saint Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur (1626–1667) Saint Peter the Aleut (d. 1815) Petar I Petrović-Njegoš (Saint Peter of Cetinje) (1747–1830), ruler of Montenegro and Montenegrin saint; Saint Peter Yi Tae-chol of the Korean Martyrs (d. 19th century) Saint Peter Chanel ...
Pedro Calungsod (Spanish: Pedro Calúñgsod or archaically Pedro Calonsor; July 21, 1654 [1] [4] – April 2, 1672), also known as Peter Calungsod and Pedro Calonsor, was a Catholic Filipino-Visayan migrant, sacristan and missionary catechist who, along with the Spanish Jesuit missionary Diego Luis de San Vitores, suffered religious persecution and martyrdom in Guam for their missionary work ...
According to Yanovsky's 1865 letter, upon receiving the report of Peter's death, St. Herman on Kodiak Island was moved to cry out, "Holy new-martyr Peter, pray to God for us!" [ 3 ] Peter the Aleut was glorified as a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and locally glorified by the Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in ...
Peter Chrysologus (Greek: Ἅγιος Πέτρος ὁ Χρυσολόγος, Petros Chrysologos, "Peter the Golden-worded"; c. 380 – c. 450 [2]) was an Italian Christian prelate who served as Bishop of Ravenna from about 433 until his death. [3]