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ST PETER PASCHAL, BISHOP AND MARTYR - 6 DECEMBER

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER   Saints celebrated on the 6th of December   WELCOME! SAINT PETER PASCHAL, BISHOP AND MARTYR  Saint Peter Paschal was a native of Valencia, in Spain, and descended of the ancient family of the Paschals, which had edified the Church by the triumphs of five glorious martyrs, which it produced under the Moors.  Peter’s parents were virtuous and exceedingly charitable; and St Peter Nolasco often lodged with them in his travels.  ST PETER NOLASCO'S PRAYERS The birth of our saint was ascribed by them to his prayers and blessing, and the child received from him an early tincture of sincere piety.  Peter Paschal performed his studies under domestic tutors, and, having received the tonsure, was made canon at Valencia, soon after the king of Arragon had won that city from the Moors.  His preceptor was a priest of Narbonne, a doctor of divinity, of the faculty of Paris, whom our saint’s parents had ransomed from the Moors, who ha...