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Also known as

• Nicholas the Pilgrim
• Nicola Pellegrino di Trani

Memorial

• 2 June

Profile

Moved from Greece to Apulia, Italy as a teenager where he wandered the streets carrying a cross and crying “Kyrie Eleison” (“Lord, have mercy”). Groups of children would follow him, also crying “Kyrie Eleison”. Noted for his piety and personal holiness, but considered a lunatic by the locals. Many miracles reported at his tomb.

Born

• 1075 in Greece

Died

• 1094 in Trani, Italy of natural causes

Canonized

• 1098 by Pope Blessed Urban II

Patronage

• Trani, Italy

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

• “Saint Nicholas Peregrinus”. Saints.SQPN.com. 2 June 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-nicholas-peregrinus/>