Peter of Anagni

Peter of Anagni (died 3 August 1105) was a Benedictine monk, bishop and papal legate.[1]

Saint Peter of Anagni
Bishop of Anagni
BornSalerno, Italy
Died3 August 1105
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church
Canonized4 June 1109 by Pope Pascal II
Feast3 August

Born in Salerno, he entered the Benedictines and so distinguished himself as a monk that Pope Gregory VII appointed him Bishop of Anagni.[2] As bishop, he improved the spiritual welfare of the city and started rebuilding the city's cathedral. He was then sent as papal legate to the Byzantine Empire where he was able to convince Emperor Michael VII Doukas to provide funds and craftsmen to building of the cathedral.[3][4] The new cathedral also included a hospital where, contrary to modern hospitals, accommodation and care was provided for free not only to the sick but also to travellers.[2] Peter joined in 1096 the forces of Bohemond of Taranto[4] during the First Crusade on their way to the Holy Land and later returned by way of Constantinople, Palermo and Salerno.[5]

Peter died on 3 August 1105.[5] He was canonized in 1109 by Pope Paschal II, a mere four years after his death.[6] His feast is on 3 August[7]

Notes
  1. "San Pietro di Anagni".
  2. Charles, Rodger (1998). Christian Social Witness and Teaching: From Biblical times to the late nineteenth century. Gracewing Publishing. ISBN 0-85244-460-5.
  3. Gasper, Giles E. M.; Gullbekk, Svein H. (9 March 2016). Money and the Church in Medieval Europe, 1000–1200: Practice, Morality and Thought. Routledge. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-317-09436-4.
  4. St. Peter of Anagni Catholic Online
  5. Smith, M. Q. (1965). "Anagni: An Example of Medieval Typological Decoration". Papers of the British School at Rome. 33: 1–47. doi:10.1017/s0068246200007303., at 3–4.
  6. Vincenzo Fenicchia, BSS, vol. X (1968), col. 663.
  7. Roman Martyrology
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