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Saints of the Month: February
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Saint Peter Damian
Saint Peter Damian
The 21st of February is the feast day of Saint Peter Damian
(c. 1007 – 21 or 22 February 1072 or 1073). He is the patron saint
of traceurs, and freerunners.
The following is from Butler’s Lives of the Saints:
ST. PETER DAMIAN was born in 988, and
lost both parents at an early age. His eldest
brother, in whose hands he was left, treated
him so cruelly that a younger brother, a
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