Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. IX, 1952 Saints & hagiography Saints

Peter, Bishop of Sebaste, Saint

PIETRO, VESCOVO DI SEBASTE, SANTO

By Agostino Amore

Feast day: 9 January

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Also known as: Italian: San Pietro di Sebaste; Latin: Petrus Sebaste

PETER, Bishop of Sebaste, Saint. - Brother of St. Basil the Great and of St. Gregory of Nyssa, born before 349.

Educated by his sister Macrina to a strict Christian life, once grown he shut himself in the monastery founded by Basil, where he became abbot and distinguished himself especially for his outstanding charity. In 370 he was ordained priest by St. Basil himself, who also sent him on various missions, and in 380 he consecrated him bishop of Sebaste in Lesser Armenia; as such he took part in the Council of Constantinople of 381. His brother St. Gregory dedicated several writings to him. He died around 392. In the Hieronymian Martyrology he is commemorated on March 26 and in the Roman Martyrology on January 9.

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BIBL.: Tillemont, IX, pp. 572-76, 737-39; Acto SS. Ianuarii, I, Paris 1863, pp. 588-90; Martyr. Hieronymianum, p. 163; Martyr. Romanum, p. 13.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX (1952), col. 1448.

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Amore, Agostino. “Pietro, vescovo di sebaste, santo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, col. 1448. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/pietro-vescovo-di-sebaste-santo.

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Amore, Agostino. “Pietro, vescovo di sebaste, santo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 1448. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/pietro-vescovo-di-sebaste-santo.

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  author    = {Amore, Agostino},
  title     = {Pietro, vescovo di sebaste, santo},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1952},
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