Saint Peter of Alcantara was born in Alcantara, Spain in 1499. His father was the Governor of the province and his mother came from a noble family. He was privately tutored and attended the University of Salamanca. After he returned home from university, he joined the Franciscans.
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PETER BAPTIST; JAPANESE MARTYRS ; [ Note: In 1826, St. Peter of Alcántara was named Patron of Brazil, and in 1962 (the fourth centenary of his death), of Estremadura. Because of the reform of the general Roman calendar in 1969, his feast on 19 October.
St. Peter of Alcántara. From the Catholic Encyclopedia. Born at Alcántara, Spain, 1499; died 18 Oct.
1562. His father, Peter Garavita, was the governor of the place, and his mother was of the noble family of Sanabia. After a course of grammar and philosophy in his native town, he was sent, at the age of fourteen, to the University of Salamanca.
St. Peter of Alcantara 1499-1562. Peter was born at Alcantara in Spain in 1499. Already as a child he manifested a remarkable gift of prayer, so that at times, when he became absorbed in prayer, the servants were unable to get any response from him.
Saint Peter of Alcantara (Pierre d’ Alcantara ). Feast Day – October 19. Peter was born at Alcantara in Spain in 1499. Already as a child he manifested a remarkable gift of prayer, so that at times, when he became absorbed in prayer, the servants were unable to get any response from him.
St . Peter was born in the year 1499, at Alcantara , in Spain. He became celebrated for his great piety, and the austerity of his life, and in order to distinguish him from other Saints of the same name, received the surname, of Alcantara .
St . Peter was born at Alcantara , a small town in the province of Estramadura in Spain, in 1499. His father, Alphonso Garavito, was a lawyer and governor of that town; his mother was of good extraction, and both were persons eminent for their piety and personal merit in the world. Upon the first dawn of reason, Peter discovered the most happy …
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