So this guy is not a saint but on the way to becoming one (maybe). Beatification is the step before canonization. You have to be credited with a miracle or two and then your case is argued before some people in Rome and then you can be beatified. And if you cure some more sick people....a saint. Apparently, Peter, didn't make the next step after becoming Blessed (beatified). April 14th is his day of commeration. It would be a feast day if he were a saint.
Bl. Peter was traveling on the road, by horse, to the city of Astorga. The Bishop was his uncle and was appointing him to an important and dignified post at the Cathedral. But the road was muddy and threw him, literally, off the horse on which he was traveling. Onlookers laughed. Peter humbly reconsidered his reasons for accepting his new post. This incident changed him. He joined the Dominicans and spent the rest of his life preaching tolerance and humility. Thank God for humiliations and muddy roads.
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