You're listening to the SSPX podcast. We're happy to present True Heroes, a series of

stories of the lives of the saints presented by Father Thomas Tam.

Grant Lord that I may die for thee, who for me didst die, St. Peter of Verona.

Hey, hey, welcome to True Heroes. Today we will be talking about St. Peter of Verona. Hey, hey, welcome to true heroes.

Today we will be talking about St. Peter of Verona, called so to distinguish himself from Peter

the Apostle, and Peter Cinesius, and Peter Celestine, and Peter Chrysologus,, and Peter Damien, and Peter Nalasco, Peter Alcantara, and Peter of Alexandria.

Just wait till we get to St. John.

All right, let us dive into this story, which is of a Dominican who greatly desired to die for Christ and was granted this wish.

Peter was born at Verona, Italy in 1205.

Both of his parents were Manichaeans, so followers of the heresy that denied that God created the material world.

So their belief is that there were two infinite beings, if you will, and one created the spiritual

realm, which was the good being, and then another infinite being created all that is material,

and that being was obviously the evil being.

Regardless of this, Peter was educated at a Catholic school.

His dad once asked him what he learned at this school, and Little Peter responded by beginning

to recite the Creed, but didn't get any further than Creator of Heaven and Earth.

His dad tried to convince him that it wasn't true, that God did not create the material world, so earth, but he

wouldn't renounce this part of the creed.

He was educated later at the University of Bologna, and while there, Peter was accepted into

the Dominican order by St. Dominic himself at only 15 years old.

So this would have been in the year 1220, which would have been a year before St. Dominic himself

passed away.

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