Blessed Peter Paschal
![[Blessed Peter Paschal]](saintp70.jpg "40kb jpg 1940's Italian holy card, artist unknown")
- Also known as
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Peter Pascual;
Peter Pascualez;
Pedro Pascual;
Pietro Pascasio
- Memorial
- 6 December
- Profile
- Received his doctorate from the University of Paris.
Joined the Mercidarians in 1250.
Priest.
Tutor to Don Sancho, son of the king of Aragon, in 1253.
Bishop of Jaén 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 in 1300 at Granada
- Beatified
- 14 August 1670 by Pope Clement X
- Canonized
- pending
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