Saint Nicholas Pieck
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- Also known as
- Nicholas Pick
- Memorial
- 9 July
- Profile
- Son of John Pieck and Henriea Clavia, a pious Catholic family with a long history.
Educated at Bois-le-Duc.
Joined the Friars Minor at Bois-le-Duc.
Studied at Louvain where he was ordained in 1558.
He evangelized throughout Holland and Belgium, preaching against heresy, encouraging Catholics to stand by their faith.
Known as a friendly, open, happy, modest man, endlessly working to bring people to God.
Appointed guardian of convent in Gorkum where he preached against Calvinism and in support of the Real Presence in the Eucharist.
When the citadel of Gorkum was seized by the Watergeuzen, the Calvinists imprisoned the priests and religious.
They tortured Nicholas by hanging and burning him with a torch.
He and his fellow prisoners were offered their freedom if they would renounce the authority of Rome; they declined.
One of the Gorkum Martyrs.
- Born
- 29 August 1534 at Gorkum, Holland
- Died
- martyred 9 July 1572 at Briel, Holland;
most relics still at Briel
- Beatified
- 24 November 1675 by Pope Clement X
- Canonized
- 29 June 1867 by Pope Pius IX
- Additional Information
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Google Directory
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Catholic Encyclopedia
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
New Catholic Dictionary
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- Readings
- We must always serve God with cheerfulness.
- Saint Nicholas
