St peregrine laziosi biography for kids video

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Saint Peregrine Laziosi Pellegrino Latiosi c. He is the patron saint for persons suffering from cancer, AIDS, or other illness. Peregrine was born in Forli, Italy around At that time, Forli was governed by the Pope as part of the Papal States. Because of its anti-papal political activity, the city was under the church penalty of Interdict.

This meant that Mass and the Sacraments could not be celebrated. He was driven out of the city with insults and violence. While this true follower of Christ was praying for his persecutors, one of the crowds, an eighteen-year-old by the name of Peregrine of the famous Laziosi family, repented and humbly asked Philip for forgiveness.

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The holy Father received him with love. From that moment the young man began to scorn the vanities of the world and to pray most fervently to the Blessed Virgin, asking that she show him the way of salvation. A few years later, guided by the Virgin, he received the habit of Our Lady in the priory of Siena where he dedicated himself to her service.

There, together with Blessed Francis of Siena, he committed himself totally to the Servite life. On fire with love for others, he lavished a wealth of charity on the poor. It is said that he miraculously multiplied grain and wine during a severe shortage in his area. Above all else, he was outstanding in his love for penance; in tears, he would reflect on the errors which he thought he had made and would frequently confess to the priest.

He afflicted his body with various forms of mortification: when tired he would support himself on a choir stall or a rock; when overcome by sleep, he preferred the bare earth to a bed. As a result of this type of life, at the age of sixty he suffered from varicose veins which degenerated into cancer of the right leg.