Saint Peter Damian
Also known as: Petrus Damiani
Saint
Post-Congregation
Feast Day
February 21
Died
February 22, 1072
Canonized
1823 by Pope Leo XII (cultus confirmation)
Biography
Saint Peter Damian, also known as Petrus Damiani, was born in 1007 in Ravenna, Italy. He was the youngest child in a large but impoverished family of local nobility. Unfortunately, Peter became an orphan at a young age and was sent to live with one of his brothers who mistreated him and forced him to work as a swine-herd....