Blessed Peter Paschal

Also known as

• Peter Pascual
• Peter Pascualez
• Peter Paschasius
• Pedro Pascual
• Pietro Pascasio

Memorial

• 6 December

Profile

Received his doctorate from the University of Paris, France. Joined the Mercedarians in 1250. Priest. Tutor to Don Sancho, son of the king of Aragon (part of modern Spain), in 1253. Bishop of Jaén, Spain in 1289 during a period when the diocese was in territory controlled by Moors. Worked to ransom Christians held hostage by the Moors. Wrote and preached against Islam as a faith, and against Moorish hostage taking in general. Ambushed by Moors, he was imprisoned in Granada from 1297 until his martyrdom at the order of King Moulay Mohammed.

Born

• 1227 at Valencia, Spain

Died

• beheaded on 6 December 1300 at Granada, Spain

Beatified

• 14 August 1670 by Pope Clement X

Representation

• Mercedarian priest beheaded in his vestment, usually at the altar
• Mercedarian priest writing in a book

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Emblems of the Saints, by F C Husenbeth and Augustus Jessopp
• Mercedarian Friars
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Peter Paschal”. Saints.SQPN.com. 10 May 2010. Web. 20 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-peter-paschal/>