Saints celebrated on the 5th of June
PETER, PRINCE OF ARAGON, RELIGIOUS
Peter, Prince of Aragon, of the Order of St Francis, died godly in Valencia (in A.D. 1378). He was a son of James II, King of Aragon, and his wife Blanca of Sicily, and entered a Franciscan monastery after the death of his wife Joan, a daughter of Count Roger of Tuxo. Peter had previously shown his love for evangelical poverty and the poor by building a hospital at Tarracona.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 4, Augsburg, 1875, p. 868)
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