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Saint Peter [note 1] (born Shimon Bar Yonah; died AD 64–68), [1] also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, [6] was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church. He appears repeatedly and prominently in all four New Testament gospels as well as the Acts of ...
Saint Peter Fourier (1565–1640) 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 (1803–1841), Catholic priest, missionary, and martyr. Saint Peter-Adrian (Pierre ...
The name of the town of Bovey Tracey is derived from the River Bovey which passes through the town, and from the 'de Tracey' family – from Traci near Bayeux, Normandy, who settled in the area after the Norman Conquest of 1066. William de Tracy rebuilt the town's Church of St Peter, Paul and Thomas after 1170 as part of his penance for his ...
It is said that Peter cured her of palsy. The 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia speculates that she may have been related to Domitilla. [1] Though Petronilla was originally venerated as the daughter of Peter, more recent study has shown that she belonged to the Roman family of the Aurelli. [3] The mistake arose from misunderstanding an inscription.
The main reliable accounts of Gannibal's early life come from The Moor of Peter the Great, Pushkin's unfinished biography of his great-grandfather, published after Pushkin's death in 1837. Scholars argue that Pushkin's account may be inaccurate due to the author’s desire to elevate the status of his ancestors and family.
In some representations, the saint is symbolically synonymous with the Canarian religious culture itself, together with the Virgin of Candelaria, patron saint of the archipelago. In fact, among the canonized saints, Saint Peter of Betancur is the one usually used to represent the entire Canary archipelago. [16]
The Jacobite succession is the line through which Jacobites believed that the crowns of England, Scotland, and Ireland should have descended, applying male preference primogeniture, since the deposition of James II and VII in 1688 and his death in 1701.
Peter of Alcantara is the patron saint of nocturnal adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. In 1826, he was named patron saint of Brazil, and in 1962 (the fourth centenary of his death), of the Spanish region of Extremadura. He is also venerated as patron saint of various parishes in the United States and the Philippines.