ON B. PETER, CALLED OF THE GOOD,
CLUNIAC MONK IN GAUL.
From the Chronicle of the same Monastery and the Benedictine Calendars.
1430 or 1441.
CommentaryPeter, called of the Good, Cluniac Monk in Gaul (B.)
G. H.
The Cluniac Chronicle in the Cluniac Library printed column 1675 treats of Oddo II, the 41st Abbot; and says that he began to rule in the year 1424, and died on the 2nd of November of the year 1457, and then in column 1678 these are subjoined: "At that very time also was another certain Peter, called of the Good, a Monk, who first was a burgher and merchant of Cluny, Summary of his Life. and rich enough, having an honest wife: who at length when she had paid the debt of the flesh; the same her husband obtained the dignity of the Presbyterate: in which immediately he departed from human affairs, and brought to the church, was restored both to life and to health, as he often used to tell us. When so restored, he was made a Monk at Cluny: in which Order he lived laudably and religiously. For every day he read the whole Psalter, and celebrated Mass. On any day he devoutly said the Hours of the holy Spirit, and on any day of Tuesday Mass of the same holy Spirit he celebrated. Whence he merited, as we piously believe, to depart on the day of Pentecost, at that very hour at which the Convent sang, Veni Creator Spiritus: whose soul piously
we believe was crowned by the Holy Spirit in heaven." Thus there, what we know only of him, set forth quite accurately. Memorial in Calendars, This Peter with the title of Saint on this 4th day of June Arnold Wion reports, and following him Benedict Dorganius, and Gabriel Bucelinus in the Benedictine Calendars: also Philip Ferrarius in the general Catalog, and Andrew Saussay in the Gallican Martyrology. Only Hugo Menard abstains from every title: because however he lists him in the first place, perhaps the letter S was omitted by the carelessness of the typesetters. But that Wion, Bucelinus and Ferrarius refer his death to the year 1419, pleases less: because then Oddo II was not yet constituted Abbot; we should therefore prefer to assign the year 1430 or 1441, when, equally as then, with the Dominical letter A Easter was celebrated on April 16, and the Feast of Pentecost on this June 4. Time of death, But since we have found nothing about his Ecclesiastical veneration among the older Martyrologists, we have only prefixed the title of Blessed to his name; especially because when present at Cluny in the year 1662, and benignly led to all things more worthy of inspection and pertaining to our scope; we do not remember to have seen either his tomb, or relics, or any other memorial, indicative of ancient cult.