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SAINT PETER CANISIUS, CONFESSOR AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH Peter Canisius was born in Nijmegen in Gelderland (Netherlands) the 8th of May 1521, in the same year when Luther was in Germany with open rebellion he separated from the Church, and Ignatius of Loyola in Spain, abandoning the earthly militia, he converted to fight the battles of the Lord; thus signifying God as adversaries he would then have before him, and as leader of the sacred militia. In Cologne, where he went for his studies, he bound forever to God with the vow of chastity, and from then, the 8th of May 1543, he entered the Society of Jesus.