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<\/a>Sus padres eran hind\u00faes convertidos al luteranismo, y a los dieciocho a\u00f1os oy\u00f3 hablar por primera vez de San Francisco por medio de unos misioneros anglicanos. La prosperidad de su familia le permiti\u00f3 cursar estudios superiores y en 1927 se uni\u00f3 al profesorado del St. Francis Xavier College en Palayamkottai, conocido como el \u201cOxford del sur de la India\u201d.<\/p>\nCada vez m\u00e1s atra\u00eddo por el ideal franciscano, Peter ingres\u00f3 en la Tercera Orden de San Francisco en 1944. Tras un retiro espiritual de tres d\u00edas con los capuchinos en Trichy, y bajo la direcci\u00f3n del padre Urban, OFM Cap, renunci\u00f3 a todo y emprendi\u00f3 el camino como paradesi, un peregrino. Con tan solo una Biblia y un cuenco para mendigar, vestido con un sencillo h\u00e1bito marr\u00f3n sin capucha, viaj\u00f3 por los estados del sur de la India: Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh y Karnataka, compartiendo el mensaje de Dios all\u00e1 donde iba.<\/p>\n
Aunque era un profesor universitario culto y respetado, Pedro se relacionaba con los mendigos, sin importar su casta, dando testimonio del amor de Dios por los m\u00e1s pobres. Al principio predicaba en ingl\u00e9s y en su lengua materna, el tamil. En los a\u00f1os siguientes aprendi\u00f3 hindi, s\u00e1nscrito, malayalam, italiano, alem\u00e1n, franc\u00e9s, hebreo y arameo con el fin de evangelizar. (\u00a1Cabe recordar que en aquel entonces ya ten\u00eda m\u00e1s de cincuenta a\u00f1os!).<\/p>\n
Pedro tambi\u00e9n utiliz\u00f3 la literatura para predicar el evangelio; escribi\u00f3 nueve libros y m\u00e1s de cincuenta canciones lit\u00fargicas en tamil. Animaba a sus compatriotas a vivir una vida piadosa con un lenguaje sencillo e im\u00e1genes de la vida cotidiana, cercanas a la gente com\u00fan.<\/p>\n
La espiritualidad de Peter Reddy se caracteriza por un esp\u00edritu apost\u00f3lico, pobreza primordial y abnegaci\u00f3n, obediencia a la Iglesia y al llamado de Dios, y amor por la Eucarist\u00eda y la Sant\u00edsima Virgen Mar\u00eda. Se le atribuye la frase: \u201cNo miro al que me insulta, sino a Jes\u00fas, que est\u00e1 detr\u00e1s de \u00e9l. Har\u00e9 como Jes\u00fas hizo cuando fue insultado\u201d.<\/p>\n
Sus maestros espirituales m\u00e1s importantes fueron San Francisco y la primera mujer india canonizada, Santa Alfonsa de la Inmaculada Concepci\u00f3n (1910-1946), religiosa de la Congregaci\u00f3n Franciscana Clarisa (CFC), congregaci\u00f3n surgida en Kerala de la Tercera Orden Franciscana.<\/p>\n
Tras catorce a\u00f1os de penurias como mendigo, Peter falleci\u00f3 el 21 de junio de 1958, con fama de santo, y fue sepultado en Palayamkottai. La di\u00f3cesis local inici\u00f3 el proceso de beatificaci\u00f3n en 2008.<\/p>\n
Festividad \u2013 21 de junio<\/p>\n
Fuentes:<\/em><\/p>\n http:\/\/ofsindia.weebly.com\/our-patrons.html<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/kaptol.ofs.hr\/sluga-bozji-peter-reddy\/<\/a><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Peter Reddy, tambi\u00e9n conocido como Paul Chinnappa Reddiar o Paradesi Peter (Pedro el Peregrino), naci\u00f3 el 30 de abril de 1895 en Periooru, una aldea de la regi\u00f3n de Madurai, en Tamil Nadu, al sureste de la India. Sus padres eran hind\u00faes convertidos al luteranismo, y a los dieciocho a\u00f1os oy\u00f3 hablar por primera vez […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-page","category-news","category-saint-of-month"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","it","es","fr"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"it":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/ciofs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/peter_reddy-2.jpg",250,311,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/ciofs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/peter_reddy-2.jpg",250,311,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/ciofs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/peter_reddy-2.jpg",250,311,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/ciofs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/peter_reddy-2-121x150.jpg",121,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/ciofs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/peter_reddy-2-241x300.jpg",241,300,true],"large":["https:\/\/ciofs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/peter_reddy-2.jpg",250,311,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/ciofs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/peter_reddy-2.jpg",250,311,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/ciofs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/peter_reddy-2.jpg",250,311,false],"alm-thumbnail":["https:\/\/ciofs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/peter_reddy-2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"robert","author_link":"https:\/\/ciofs.info\/es\/author\/robert\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"Main Page<\/a> News<\/a> Saint of Month<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Peter Reddy, tambi\u00e9n conocido como Paul Chinnappa Reddiar o Paradesi Peter (Pedro el Peregrino), naci\u00f3 el 30 de abril de 1895 en Periooru, una aldea de la regi\u00f3n de Madurai, en Tamil Nadu, al sureste de la India. 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