PERAUDI, RAIMONDO. — Cardinal, born in 1435 at Sugères in the diocese of Saintes, died at Viterbo on 5 September 1505; he was an Augustinian prior in his homeland and later an apostolic protonotary. As papal nuncio in 1487, he was charged with inducing Frederick III of Germany to wage war against the Turk and, for this purpose, with preaching the Crusade and the related indulgence. He negotiated a peace among the princes of the West for this purpose; but he was unable to impose a one-year tithe on the German churches and benefices. He worked with the King of France in 1488 and then at the Diet of Frankfurt in July 1489, and urged the princes and the King of Poland to attend the Conference of Rome in March 1490.
Despite an initial adherence by Frederick III and his son Maximilian, the Crusade was not preached and nothing concrete was achieved. Appointed bishop of Gurk (Carinthia) on 21 February 1493, he was, at the request of Frederick III, created cardinal by Alexander VI on 20 September 1493. The following year he was in Rome (22 April), and in November the Pope sent him to Florence to negotiate with Charles VIII; but P. joined the King and accompanied him first to Rome and then, in April 1495, also to southern Italy, hoping to persuade him to undertake the Crusade. Returning to Rome in February 1499, he was legate to Perugia, and on 5 October 1500 was appointed legate to the Emperor; in 1501–1502 he travelled throughout Germany, once again preaching the Crusade without success. On 6 October 1501 he resigned the see of Gurk in order to receive that of Toul in commendam.
PERBOYRE, JEAN-GABRIEL, blessed. — Born at Puech (Montgesty, France) on 6 January 1802, died at Wuciang (China) on 11 September 1840. From the Seminary of Montauban (1817), he entered the following year the novitiate of the Congregation of the Mission in Paris, where he pronounced his religious vows on 28 December 1820.
Ordained a priest on 23 September 1825, he taught theology until 1827 at the major seminary of St-Flour; from 1827 to 1832 he was superior of the ecclesiastical boarding school in the same city, and from 1832 to 1835 assistant director of his community’s novitiate in Paris. On 21 March 1835 he obtained permission to leave for China, being assigned first to the mission of Honan and then to that of Eupé. When persecution broke out, he was captured on 16 September 1839 at Tcha-Yuen-Keu and thrown into the prison of Wuciang, where he underwent many interrogations before the mandarins and the viceroy, who condemned him to death. At Wuciang, P. remained in prison for eight months, until, on 11 September 1840, confirmation of his sentence arrived from the Emperor and he was strangled. He was buried at the “Red Mountain,” the cemetery of Wuciang, where he rested beside the bones of the blessed R. Clet, his confrere, until 1858. Beatified on 10 November 1889. Feast day, 7 November.