In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is de Betancur and the second or maternal family name is Gonzáles.
Saint
Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur y Gonzáles
O.F.B.
Statue of St. Peter of St. Joseph in the Cave of Santo Hermano Pedro, Tenerife, Spain.[1]
Religious and missionary
Born
(1626-03-21)21 March 1626 Vilaflor, Tenerife, Spanish Empire
Died
25 April 1667(1667-04-25) (aged 41) Antigua Guatemala, Captaincy General of Guatemala, Spanish Empire
Venerated in
Roman Catholic Church (Canary Islands & Guatemala)
Beatified
June 22, 1980, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II
Canonized
July 30, 2002, Guatemala City, Guatemala by Pope John Paul II
Major shrine
Cave of Santo Hermano Pedro and Sanctuary of the Santo Hermano Pedro (Tenerife) and San Francisco Church in Antigua, Guatemala
Feast
April 25
Attributes
Holds a walking stick and bell. Occasionally it also represents a spear canary pastor.[2]
Patronage
Canary Islands, Guatemala, Central America, catechists of Guatemala, Honorary Mayor of municipalities in the south of Tenerife and Honorary Mayor of Antigua Guatemala, of the homeless and of those who serve the sick.
Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur (or Betancourt) y Gonzáles, OFB (Spanish: Pedro de San José de Betancur y Gonzáles, 21 March 1626– 25 April 1667), also called Hermano Pedro de San José Betancurt (Brother Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur) or more simply Peter de Betancurt, Hermano Pedro (Brother Peter), Santo Hermano Pedro (Saint Brother Peter), or San Pedro de Vilaflor (Saint Peter of Vilaflor), was a Spanish saint and missionary in Guatemala.
Known as the "Saint Francis of Assisi of the Americas", he is the first saint native to the Canary Islands. He left at the age of 23 for New Spain, and is considered the first saint of Guatemala and Central America for having done his missionary work in those American lands. He was the founder of Order of Our Lady of Bethlehem.
^Mañana se celebra la onomástica del Hermano Pedro
^Festividad de San Pedro de San José Betancur (Hermano Pedro), primer santo canario
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