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SAINT PETER, MARTYR Peter, born in Verona toward 1205 from parents infected of the errors of the Manicheans (Cathars), since nearly the youth he fought heresies. Young child of seven years old, frequenting school, was questioned once by his paternal uncle, heretic, of what he finally learned, he answered that he learned the symbol of the Christian faith; neither the caresses nor the threats of the father and of the uncle could never shake his firm constancy in the profession of the Catholic faith. Adolescent he went to Bologna to continue the studies; where, called by the Holy Spirit to a kind of more perfect life, he joined the Order of the Friars Preachers, receiving the habit from the Patriarch himself St. Dominic.