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Saint Peter Gonzalez is also popularly known as St. Elmo
Biography
He was born in 1190 at Astorga, Spain. He was educated by his uncle, Bishop of Astorga, who gave him when very young a canonry. Later he entered the Dominican Order and became a renowned preacher; crowds gathered to hear him and numberless conversions were the result of his efforts. He accompanied king Ferdinand III of Leon on his expeditions against the Moors, but his ambition was to preach to the poor.
He devoted the remainder of his life to the instruction and conversion of the ignorant and of the mariners in Galicia and along the coast of Spain. He died on 15 April, 1246, at Tuylies and is buried in the cathedral of Tuy and was beatified in 1254 by pope Innocent IV.
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Catholic Encyclopedia - St. Peter Gonzalez, Spanish Dominican, d. 1246. Patron saint of Spanish and Portuguese sailors, often conflated with St. Erasmus.
Meta Description: [ Spanish Dominican, d. 1246. Patron saint of Spanish and Portuguese sailors ]
For All the Saints - Pious biography of St. Peter Gonzalez, also known as St. Telmo or St. Elmo.
Lives of the Saints - Entry for St. Peter Gonzales, confessor, from Fr. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints. Says he is also called St. Elm or St. Telm.
Patron Saints Index - Profile of St. Peter Gonzalez, also spelled Gonzales. Sometimes called St. Erasmus. With links.
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St. Peter Gonzales - Short biography.
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