Fr. Peter, a convert and member of the Eastern Dominican Province, was born in or near Elizabeth, New Jersey, on January 8, 1812. Educated at St. Roses's near Springfield, Kentucky, he was ordained there on April 5, 1840, by Bishop Richard P. Miles OP., of Nashville, Tennessee. In 1849, after splendid missionary work in Kentucky and Ohio, he was sent to help to organize the church in California, which had lately become a part of the United States. He built the first church in Sacramento, Saint Rose Church, and died there of Asiatic cholera, on November 27, 1850, having contracted it while dutifully ministering to the sick and dying in the epidemic. Later his remains were transferred to St. Dominic Cemetery in Benicia, California.
He was held in high regard as a missionary, Dominican friar and priest. Fr. Peter also is the first friar to die and be listed in the Necrology of the Western Dominican Province. To this day, parishioners of St. Dominic Church in Benicia, California, continue to leave flowers in front of an image of his placed on the side of the named church.
He was held in high regard as a missionary, Dominican friar and priest. Fr. Peter also is the first friar to die and be listed in the Necrology of the Western Dominican Province. To this day, parishioners of St. Dominic Church in Benicia, California, continue to leave flowers in front of an image of his placed on the side of the named church.
Fr. Peter, a convert and member of the Eastern Dominican Province, was born in or near Elizabeth, New Jersey, on January 8, 1812. Educated at St. Roses's near Springfield, Kentucky, he was ordained there on April 5, 1840, by Bishop Richard P. Miles OP., of Nashville, Tennessee. In 1849, after splendid missionary work in Kentucky and Ohio, he was sent to help to organize the church in California, which had lately become a part of the United States. He built the first church in Sacramento, Saint Rose Church, and died there of Asiatic cholera, on November 27, 1850, having contracted it while dutifully ministering to the sick and dying in the epidemic. Later his remains were transferred to St. Dominic Cemetery in Benicia, California.
He was held in high regard as a missionary, Dominican friar and priest. Fr. Peter also is the first friar to die and be listed in the Necrology of the Western Dominican Province. To this day, parishioners of St. Dominic Church in Benicia, California, continue to leave flowers in front of an image of his placed on the side of the named church.
He was held in high regard as a missionary, Dominican friar and priest. Fr. Peter also is the first friar to die and be listed in the Necrology of the Western Dominican Province. To this day, parishioners of St. Dominic Church in Benicia, California, continue to leave flowers in front of an image of his placed on the side of the named church.
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