ST PETER DE REGALADO, FRIAR MINOR AND REFORMER - 30 MARCH

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH

Saints celebrated on the 30th of March

Prayer to the Angels and the Saints

Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation.

In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven.

Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses.

Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.

ST PETER DE REGALADO, FRIAR MINOR AND REFORMER 

(Regalatus) A Friar Minor and reformer, Saint Peter de Regalado was born at Valladolid, in 1390 and died at Aguilera, March 30, 1456. His parents were of noble birth and conspicuous for their wealth and virtue. 

Having lost his father in his early youth, he was piously educated by his mother. At the age of ten years Peter begged to be admitted into the Seraphic Order, which favour was granted him three years afterwards in the convent of his native town. 

HE BECAME ONE OF THE FIRST DISCIPLES OF PETER DE VILLACRECES

In 1404 he became one of the first disciples of Peter de Villacreces, who in 1397 had introduced into Spain the reform of the Observance of which he became one of the most zealous propagators. 

In the newly-founded convent at Aguilera Peter found the life of solitude, prayer, and eminent poverty, which had always been the greatest object of his desire. 

HE OBSERVED NINE LENTS

In 1415 he became superior of the convent at Aguilera and, on the death of Peter de Villacreces (1422), also of that at Tribulos or del Abroyo. 

He observed nine Lents, fasting on bread and water, and was endowed with the gift of miracles and prophecy and of every virtue. 

HIS BODY WAS FOUND INCORRUPT

When his body was exhumed thirty-six years after his death, at the instance of Isabella the Catholic, it was found incorrupt and placed in a more precious tomb. 

He was beatified by Innocent XI, March 11, 1684, and canonised by Benedict XIV, June 29, 1746. [May 13 is the day of the translation of his body.]. In art he is represented with flames bursting from his heart

(From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)