Which St. Peter? Every Saint Named Peter

St. Peter the Apostle died c. 64 · Feast day June 29

St. Peter was a fisherman whom Jesus renamed Cephas, "rock," and made leader of the twelve apostles.

St. Peter of Alexandria died 311 · Feast day November 25

St. Peter of Alexandria was bishop of Alexandria in Egypt from 300 until he was beheaded in November 311, one of the last victims of the Great Persecution.

St. Peter of Sebaste c. 340–391 · Feast day January 9

St. Peter of Sebaste (about 340–391) was the youngest child of a family of saints: his brothers were St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory of Nyssa, and his sister St. Macrina raised him.

St. Peter Chrysologus c. 400–c. 450 · Feast day July 30

St. Peter Chrysologus (about 400 to 450) was the bishop of Ravenna, then the capital of the Western Roman Empire, and one of the great preachers of the early Church; Chrysologus means "golden-worded." About 180 of his…

St. Peter of Canterbury died c. 607 · Feast day January 6

St. Peter of Canterbury was a monk of the Roman mission that St. Augustine brought to Kent in 597 and the first abbot of the monastery of Sts. Peter and Paul at Canterbury, later St. Augustine's Abbey.

St. Peter the Athonite died 734 · Feast day June 12

St. Peter the Athonite (Peter of Athos) was a Byzantine soldier who, after a miraculous release from captivity, became a monk and lived alone on Mount Athos for fifty-three years, from 681 until his death in 734.

St. Peter of Trevi died c. 1052 · Feast day August 30

St. Peter the Hermit, also called St. Peter of Trevi, was an eleventh-century wandering preacher who died at Trevi nel Lazio, traditionally in 1052.

St. Peter Damian 1007–1072 · Feast day February 21

St. Peter Damian (1007–1072) was a Benedictine hermit and prior of Fonte Avellana who became cardinal-bishop of Ostia and one of the great reformers of the eleventh-century Church, writing and preaching against simony…

St. Peter of Anagni died 1105 · Feast day August 3

St. Peter of Anagni (died 1105) was a Benedictine monk from the princely family of Salerno who served Pope Alexander II as chaplain and then governed the diocese of Anagni, south of Rome, for forty-three years.

St. Peter of Damascus 12th century · Feast day February 9

St. Peter of Damascus, or Peter Damascene, was a Byzantine monk of the 12th century whose two books on the spiritual life, A Treasury of Divine Knowledge and Twenty-four Discourses, fill a large part of the Philokalia.

St. Peter of Tarentaise c. 1102–1174 · Feast day May 8

St. Peter of Tarentaise (about 1102–1174) was a Cistercian monk, the first abbot of Tamié, and archbishop of Tarentaise in the Savoy Alps.

Blessed Peter Gonzalez 1190–1246 · Feast day April 15

Blessed Peter Gonzalez (1190–1246), called San Telmo or St. Elmo, was a Spanish Dominican friar who preached at the court of King Ferdinand III of Castile and spent his last years teaching the poor and the sailors of…

St. Peter of Verona c. 1205–1252 · Feast day June 4

St. Peter of Verona, also called St. Peter Martyr, was a Dominican friar and preacher killed on the road from Como to Milan on April 6, 1252.

St. Peter Nolasco c. 1189–1256 · Feast day May 6

St. Peter Nolasco (about 1189–1256) was a layman from Languedoc who spent his fortune buying Christian captives out of slavery in Moorish lands, then founded the Order of Our Lady of Mercy (the Mercedarians) in…

St. Peter Thomas c. 1305–1366 · Feast day January 8

St. Peter Thomas (about 1305–1366) was a French Carmelite friar, born to a poor serf's family in Périgord, who became a papal diplomat, archbishop of Crete and Latin Patriarch of Constantinople.

St. Peter Faber 1506–1546 · Feast day August 1

St. Peter Faber (1506–1546) was a shepherd boy from Savoy who became one of the founding companions of St. Ignatius and the first priest of the Jesuits.

St. Peter of Alcantara 1499–1562 · Feast day October 19

St. Peter of Alcantara (1499–1562) was a Spanish Franciscan friar who led a strict, barefoot reform of his order, wrote a famous little treatise on prayer, and was the confessor and champion of St. Teresa of Avila.

St. Peter Canisius 1521–1597 · Feast day December 21

St. Peter Canisius (1521–1597) was a Dutch Jesuit priest who led the Catholic revival in Germany, Austria and Switzerland during the Reformation.

Blessed Peter Snow died 1598 · Feast day June 15

Blessed Peter Snow (died 1598) was an English Catholic priest from Ripon in Yorkshire, ordained at Reims in 1591, who served the hidden Catholics of England for nearly seven years.

St. Peter Fourier 1565–1640 · Feast day December 9

St. Peter Fourier (1565–1640) was a canon regular and, for over thirty years, parish priest of Mattaincourt in Lorraine, remembered as "the Good Father." He founded an interest-free fund for the poor and, in 1597–1598,…

St. Peter Mogila 1597–1647 · Feast day December 31

St. Peter Mogila (Petro Mohyla, 1597–1647) was a prince of Moldavia who became archimandrite of the Kyiv Caves Monastery and then Metropolitan of Kyiv.

Blessed Peter Wright 1603–1651 · Feast day May 19

Blessed Peter Wright (1603–1651) was an English Jesuit priest from Northamptonshire who served as chaplain to English soldiers and then to the Marquis of Winchester.

St. Peter Claver 1580–1654 · Feast day September 9

St. Peter Claver (1580–1654) was a Spanish Jesuit who spent about forty years in Cartagena, in present-day Colombia, meeting the slave ships from Africa with food, medicine and the Gospel.

St. Pedro Calungsod c. 1654–c. 1672 · Feast day October 21

St. Pedro Calungsod was a teenage catechist from the Visayas who went with Jesuit missionaries to Guam and was killed there on April 2, 1672, rather than abandon the priest he served.

St. Peter Sanz 1680–1747 · Feast day July 9

St. Peter Sanz (1680–1747) was a Catalan Dominican missionary who served in Fujian, China, for some thirty years, later as bishop.

St. Peter Wu Guosheng c. 1768–1814 · Feast day July 9

St. Peter Wu Guosheng (about 1768–1814) was an innkeeper in Guizhou who heard of Christ from a guest, was baptized and spent his life as a lay catechist.

St. Peter the Aleut died 1815 · Feast day September 24

St. Peter the Aleut was a young Alutiiq hunter from Kodiak Island, Alaska, baptized in the Russian Orthodox mission.

St. Peter Yu Tae-chol 1826–1839 · Feast day September 20

St. Peter Yu Tae-chol (1826–1839) was a Korean boy who gave himself up during the persecution and, after months of beatings that never broke his faith, was strangled on October 31, 1839, at thirteen.

St. Peter Chanel 1803–1841 · Feast day April 28

St. Peter Chanel (1803–1841) was a French Marist priest who brought the Gospel to the Pacific island of Futuna and was killed there on April 28, 1841, the first martyr of Oceania.

St. Peter Julian Eymard 1811–1868 · Feast day August 2

St. Peter Julian Eymard (1811–1868) was a French priest and Marist who founded the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament in Paris in 1856 so that Christ in the Eucharist would be adored day and night.

St. Pedro Poveda Castroverde 1874–1936 · Feast day July 28

St. Pedro Poveda Castroverde (1874–1936) was a Spanish priest who opened schools for the cave families of Guadix and founded the Teresian Association, a movement of Catholic lay educators.

St. Pedro de Jesús Maldonado 1892–1937 · Feast day February 11

St. Pedro de Jesús Maldonado (1892–1937) was a Mexican priest of Chihuahua who loved the Eucharist above everything and founded groups of nightly adoration in his parish.

St. Peter To Rot 1912–1945 · Feast day July 7

St. Peter To Rot (1912–1945) was a lay catechist, husband and father from New Britain.