Feb 21

Saint Peter Damian

February 21st XI century

Name
Pedro (Masculino)
Celebrate
People named Pedro use to celebrate 29-Jun:
Saint Peter Apostle
Other saints
Other saints named Pedro
Born
en Rávena, in current Italy
Dead
in Favencia, in current Italy
Process
Celebration
February 21st
Memory of saint Peter Damiani (Damiano or Damian), Cardinal Bishop of Ostia and doctor of the Church. Having entered the hermitage of Fonte Avellana, he promoted hard religious life and in the difficult times of the reformation of the Church worked for the monks was under the sanctity of contemplation, the clerics to the integrity of life and that people keep the communion with the Apostolic See. He died on February 22 in Favència of Romagna. Roman martyrology