The Saint of the day 6 April is Saint Peter of Verona, which name day is celebrated and other saints who are celebrated on this date.
St. Peter of Verona
Pietro Rosini, commonly known as San Pietro martire, was born in Verona around the year 1205 and died in Seveso in 1252.
Coming from a heretical family, he soon came into conflict with parents and relatives, because of his innate rectitude.
He learned the prayer of the Creed to the schools of Catholics, a text that for Peter was not only a simple recitation formula, but something much larger, corresponding to a profound ideal of life, able to illuminate his life path step by step .
After completing his law studies at the University of Bologna, in 1221 he decided to devote himself to religious life, entering the convent of the Order of Preaching Friars, after being particularly fascinated by the sermons of Domenico Guzman who became a saint after his death.
Within the congregation, the foundations were formed for him for a particularly strong holiness that made him truly become a tireless athlete devoted to serving exclusively Jesus Christ.
It is said that one day he confided to a confrere who since he became a priest, while celebrating Mass, at the time of raising the chalice, asked the Lord every time for the grace to have a martyr's death, and this speaks volumes on how immense the ardor of his faith and his charity.
When he was appointed Inquisitor General for Lombardy in 1242, he never stopped fighting heretics using the Word of God as his only weapon, so he was eventually killed as he wished while traveling the stretch of road that separated him from Milan from Como.
Other saints and celebrations on April 6
- Blessed Caterina Morigi of Pallanza
- Sant'Eutichio
- Santa Galla of Rome
- St. William of Eskill
- Saint Irenaeus of Sirmium
- April 25: saint of the day, name day
- April 30: saint of the day, name day
- April 21: saint of the day, name day
- April 6: saint of the day, name day
- April 23: saint of the day, name day
- Blessed Michele Rua
- Blessed Notker the stutterer
- Saint Paul Le Bao Tinh
- Blessed Pierina Morosini
- Saint Prudentius of Troyes
- San Vinebaldo
- Blessed Zefirino Agostini
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