Peregrin

The name Peregrin (from Latin Peregrinus, meaning pilgrim or stranger) is borne by several distinct figures in Christian hagiography. No Wikidata identifier, diocese, century, or religious order was supplied with this query, so a unique identification cannot be established from reliable sources. Fields that require a single verified person, date, or place have therefore been left blank rather than filled by conjecture.

The saint most widely known in later Catholic devotion under this name is Peregrine Laziosi (Italian Pellegrino Latiosi), a priest of the Servite Order associated with Forlì in the Romagna. Traditional Servite and later hagiographical accounts describe him as coming from a Ghibelline family, converted after an encounter with the Servite prior general Philip Benizi, and thereafter living as a Servite in penance. He is said to have been miraculously healed of a cancerous ulcer of the leg on the eve of its intended amputation, and to have died at Forlì on 1 May 1345. He was beatified by Pope Paul V in 1609 and canonized by Pope Benedict XIII in 1726. His feast is 1 May, and he is invoked as a patron of people suffering from cancer and other grave illness. His year of birth is not securely documented in contemporary records and appears only approximately in later sources, often around 1260.

An earlier and largely legendary figure is Saint Peregrinus of Auxerre, commemorated as the first bishop of Auxerre in Gaul. Medieval tradition presents him as a Roman missionary of the third century who was martyred in the Auxerre region; his feast is kept on 16 May. Independent contemporary evidence for his life is lacking, and modern historians treat the surviving Acta as late and unreliable in detail. Another cult, centered at San Pellegrino in Alpe in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, honors a hermit pilgrim often called Pellegrino or Peregrin and sometimes described as Irish or Scottish. His dates are uncertain, and the legend belongs to early medieval pilgrimage piety rather than to a well-documented biography. Franciscan tradition also remembers Blessed Peregrine of Falerone, a thirteenth-century friar associated with the early companions of Francis of Assisi, who died in 1232.

Because these persons differ in century, place, order, feast day, and patronage, none of their specific dates, burial sites, or canonization data can be assigned to an unspecified Peregrin without guessing. No historically attested bearer of the name held the papacy or an Eastern patriarchal see. All such saints so named were men. Whether any given individual was married or had children depends entirely on which figure is meant and is undocumented for the early bishops and hermits.