The feast of St Peregrinus

Although I believe every Christian is a 'saint' by definition, I also think that many of the official saints are great people, worthy of taking note of, St Pancras being one of them. Paul or if you prefer, St Paul addresses the Christians in his letters as 'the saints', likewise every Christian is a priest ordained by Christ every Christian is already possessed by God's Holy Spirit or the Holy Ghost, all of us are priests and saints!

But I digress, I will regularly be posting on great Christians, many are recognized by the Catholic Church as 'saints', today's 'saint' is St Peregrinus first bishop or Elder of the church in Auxerre, Gaul. Peregrinus was a Roman and was sent to assist the evangelisation of Gaul. He met with great success in the area around Massilia and Lyons, modern France. He was martyred under Emperor Diocletian in the late third century or early fourth century during the great persecutions in which thousands of Christians were martyred