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Peter González

Spanish Dominican friar and priest

Field	Value
honorific_prefix	Blessed
name	Peter González
honorific_suffix	O.P.
birth_date	October 14, 1190
death_date
feast_day	[14 April](14-april)
venerated_in	Roman Catholic Church
(Dominican Order)
image	San Telmo representacion con cirio y barco.jpg
caption	16th-century painting of the Blessed Peter González, by Alejo Fernández, in the Alcázar of Seville
birth_place	Frómista, Kingdom of Castile and Leon
death_place	Tui, Galicia, Kingdom of Castile and Leon
titles	Religious, priest and confessor
beatified_date	1254, Rome, Papal States, Pope Innocent IV
13 December 1741, Rome, Papal States, Pope Benedict XIV (cultus confirmed)
attributes	Dominican holding a blue candle or a candle with a blue flame; Dominican lying on his cloak which is spread over hot coals; Dominican holding fire in his bare hands; Dominican catching fish with his bare hands; Dominican beside the ocean, often holding or otherwise protecting a ship
patronage	sailors

(Dominican Order) 13 December 1741, Rome, Papal States, Pope Benedict XIV (cultus confirmed)

Peter González Telmo, OP (1190 – 15 April 1246), also known as Saint Elmo, was a Castilian Dominican friar and priest, born in 1190 in Frómista, Palencia, Kingdom of Castile and Leon.

Life

St. Peter Gonzalez was born in Castille, Spain, in 1190. González was educated by his uncle, the Bishop of Astorga, who gave him a canonry when he was very young.

On one occasion, he was riding triumphantly into the city, his horse stumbled, dumping him into the mud to the amusement of onlookers. Humbled, the canon reevaluated his vocation and later resigned his position to enter the Dominican Order. González became a renowned preacher; crowds gathered to hear him and numberless conversions were the result of his efforts.

He spent much of his time as a court preacher. After King Saint Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon captured Córdoba, González was successful in restraining the soldiers from pillaging the city. He also worked for the humane treatment of Moorish prisoners.

After retiring from the court, González devoted the remainder of his life to preaching in northwest Spain, and developed a special mission to Spanish and Portuguese seamen. He died on 15 April 1246 at Tui and is buried in the local cathedral.

Veneration

Peter González was beatified in 1254 by Pope Innocent IV. Although he was never formally canonized, his cultus was confirmed in 1741 by Pope Benedict XIV.

The diminutive "Elmo" (or "Telmo") belongs properly to the martyr-bishop Erasmus of Formia (died c. 303), one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. However, as Erasmus is the patron saint of sailors generally, and Peter González of Spanish and Portuguese sailors specifically, they have both been popularly invoked as "Saint Elmo." He is thus called “Saint Peter Thelmo” as titular of a parish in Aparri, Cagayan, Philippines. The San Telmo barrio in Buenos Aires takes its name from him.

References

[https://angelusnews.com/faith/saint-of-the-day/peter-gonzalez/ "Peter Gonzalez", ''Angelus News'', April 14, 2024]
[https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-peter-gonzalez-436 "St. Peter Gonzalez", Catholic News Agency]
[https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/blessed-peter-gonzalez "Blessed Peter Gonzalez", ''Saint of the Day'', Franciscan Media]
[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11768b.htm Mershman, Francis. "St. Peter Gonzalez." The Catholic Encyclopedia] Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 28 December 2015

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