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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Peter of Tarentaise
DESCRIPTION:SAINT PETER II\, \nARCHBISHOP OF TARENTAISE \nFrom Butler’s Lives of the Saints1 \n◊◊◊ \nSt Peter of Tarentaise was born near Vienne in the French province of the \nDauphine. He early displayed a remarkable memory\, coupled with great \ninclination for religious studies\, and at the age of twenty he entered the abbey \nof Bonnevaux. After a time\, his father and the other two sons followed Peter to \nBonnevaux\, while his mother\, with the only daughter\, entered a neighboring \nnunnery. \nHe was not quite thirty when he was chosen superior of a new house built \nat Tamie\, in the desert mountains of Tarentaise. It over looked the pass which \nwas then the chief route from Geneva to Savoy\, and the monks were able to be \nof great use to travellers. There\, with the help of Amadeus III\, Count of Savoy\, \nwho held him in high esteem\, he founded a hospice for the sick and for \nstrangers\, in which he was wont to wait upon his guests with his own hands. \nIn 1142 came his election to the archbishopric of Tarentaise\, and Peter \nwas compelled by St Bernard and the general chapter of his order\, though much \nagainst the grain\, to accept the office. He found the diocese in a deplorable state\, \ndue mainly to the mismanagement of his predecessor\, an unworthy man who \nhad eventually to be deposed. In place of the cathedral clergy whom he found \nlax and careless; St Peter substituted canons regular of St Augustine. He \nundertook the constant visitation of his diocese; recovered property which had \nbeen alienated; appointed good priests to various parishes; made excellent \nfoundations for the education of the young and relief of the poor; and \neverywhere provided for the due celebration of the services of the Church..11 \nIn 1155\, after he had administered the diocese for thirteen years\, Peter \nsuddenly disappeared. Actually\, he had made his way to a remote Cistercian \nabbey in Switzerland\, where\, he was accepted as a lay-brother. Not until a year \nlater was he discovered. His identity having been revealed to his new superiors\, \nPeter was obliged to leave and return to his see\, where he was greeted with great \njoy. He took up his duties more zealously than ever. He rebuilt the hospice of \nthe Little St Bernard and founded other similar refuges for travellers in the \nAlps… \nIt was not granted to the saint to die among his mountain flock. His \nreputation as a peacemaker led Alexander III to send him in 1174 to try effect a \nreconciliation between King Louis VII of France and Henry II of England. St \nPeter\, though he was old\, set out at once\, preaching everywhere on his way. As \nhe approached Chaumont in the Vexin\, where the French court was being held\, \nhe was met by King Louis and by Prince Henry\, the rebellious heir to the English \nthrone. The latter\, alighting from his horse to receive the archbishop’s blessing\, \nasked for the saint’s old cloak\, which he reverently kissed. Both at Chaumont \nand at Gisors where he interviewed the English king\, St Peter was treated with \nutmost honor\, but the reconciliation for which he labored did not take place \nuntil after his death. As he was returning to his diocese he was taken ill on the \nroad near Besancon\, and died as he was being carried into the abbey of \nBellevaux. This St Peter was canonized in 1191.
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