Peter of Alcántara«Pedro de Alcántara / Peter Garavita»

(1499–1562)

Friar, Mystic

Orders/Societies Associated with: Franciscans^*

Place of birth:Kingdom of Castile (Crown of Castile)^†

Place of death:Kingdom of Castile (Crown of Castile)

Feastday

19 October

Beatification

18/04/1622 by Gregorius XV

Canonisation

28/04/1669 by Clemens IX

Patronage

Patron of:Brazil^††; Extremadura^†††; Shrewsbury Cathedral^††††

Patron of:Eucharistic adoration, security guards

^*Orders of Friars Minor / Ordo Fratrum Minorum / Frati Minori [1209]

^†Reino de Castilla (Corona de Castilla) / Regnum Castellae (Corona Castellae) [1065–1715]

^††Brasil

^†††Estremaúa

^††††The Cathedral Church of Our Lady Help of Christians and Saint Peter of Alcantara

Saints

This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.

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Sources

Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:

D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.

Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.

Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.

Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990

and the following websites:

Saints.SQPN.com

Santi, beati e testimoni - Enciclopedia dei Santi

Santi e beati della Toscana

eCatholicHub Catholic Saints Database

The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee

Martyrologium Romanum - Index Generalis

www.synaxaristis - ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ

Onomasticon Goedelicum locorum et tribuum Hiberniae et Scotiae (An index, with identifications, to the Gaelic names of places and tribes)

Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England: Database Home

focal.ie - Dictionary of Irish Terms - Foclóir Téarmaíochta

logainm.ie - Bunachar Logainmneacha na hÉireann - Placenames Database of Ireland

Bosworth–Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia