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We're happy to present another installment of True Heroes, stories of the lives of the saints,

delivered by Father Thomas Tam.

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You can see the video at SSPX Podcast.com.

Now here's Father Tam.

You wanted a cell, Peter, and a cell you have. St. Peter Celestine.

Hello, my friends, and welcome to true heroes.

Today we are going to talk about St. Peter Celestine,

a monk turned pope in a rather unusual manner.

Let us begin his story.

So when the father of this Italian saint, because yes, once again we have another Italian,

once the father of the saint died, his good mother brought up her 12 children, even though they were very poor.

She said, quote, oh if I could only have the joy

of seeing one of you become a saint, unquote.

Once when she asked as usual,

which one of you is going to become a saint,

little Peter answered with all his heart,

me, mama, I'll become a saint.

This is not surprising seeing that already at his

young age, so this I suppose would have been around eight or nine years old, Peter already

regularly had visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary as well as angels and saints, and would communicate with them

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