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<\/a>Ses parents, hindous convertis au luth\u00e9ranisme, lui firent d\u00e9couvrir saint Fran\u00e7ois \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de dix-huit ans gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 des missionnaires anglicans. La prosp\u00e9rit\u00e9 de sa famille lui permit de poursuivre des \u00e9tudes sup\u00e9rieures et, en 1927, il int\u00e9gra le corps professoral du St. Francis Xavier College de Palayamkottai, surnomm\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0l\u2019Oxford du sud de l\u2019Inde\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\nDe plus en plus attir\u00e9 par l\u2019id\u00e9al franciscain, Pierre entra dans le Tiers-Ordre de Saint Fran\u00e7ois en 1944. Apr\u00e8s une retraite spirituelle de trois jours avec les Capucins \u00e0 Trichy, et sur les conseils du P\u00e8re Urbain, OFM Cap, il renon\u00e7a \u00e0 tout et prit la route comme paradesi \u2013 p\u00e8lerin. Muni seulement d\u2019une Bible et d\u2019un bol \u00e0 aum\u00f4nes, v\u00eatu d\u2019un simple habit brun sans capuche, il parcourut les \u00c9tats du sud de l\u2019Inde \u2013 le Tamil Nadu, le Kerala, l\u2019Andhra Pradesh et le Karnataka \u2013, annon\u00e7ant la nouvelle de Dieu partout o\u00f9 il allait.<\/p>\n
Bien qu\u2019il f\u00fbt un professeur d\u2019universit\u00e9 instruit et respect\u00e9, Pierre fr\u00e9quentait les mendiants, sans distinction de caste, t\u00e9moignant ainsi de l\u2019amour de Dieu pour les plus d\u00e9munis. Au d\u00e9but, il pr\u00eachait en anglais et en tamoul, sa langue maternelle. Les ann\u00e9es suivantes, il apprit l\u2019hindi, le sanskrit, le malayalam, l\u2019italien, l\u2019allemand, le fran\u00e7ais, l\u2019h\u00e9breu et l\u2019aram\u00e9en afin d\u2019\u00e9vang\u00e9liser. (Il convient de rappeler qu\u2019\u00e0 cette \u00e9poque, il avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 plus de cinquante ans\u00a0!)<\/p>\n
Pierre utilisa \u00e9galement la presse pour pr\u00eacher l\u2019\u00c9vangile\u00a0; il \u00e9crivit neuf livres et plus de cinquante chants liturgiques tamouls. Il encouragea ses compatriotes \u00e0 mener une vie pieuse, employant un langage simple et des images du quotidien, proches du peuple.<\/p>\n
La spiritualit\u00e9 de Peter Reddy se caract\u00e9rise par un esprit apostolique, une pauvret\u00e9 primordiale et un renoncement \u00e0 soi-m\u00eame, l\u2019ob\u00e9issance \u00e0 l\u2019\u00c9glise et \u00e0 l\u2019appel de Dieu, et l\u2019amour de l\u2019Eucharistie et de la Vierge Marie. On lui attribue cette citation\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Je ne regarde pas celui qui m\u2019insulte, mais J\u00e9sus qui se tient derri\u00e8re lui. Je ferai comme J\u00e9sus lorsqu\u2019il fut insult\u00e9.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n
Les ma\u00eetres les plus importants de sa vie spirituelle furent pour lui saint Fran\u00e7ois et la premi\u00e8re femme indienne canonis\u00e9e, sainte Alphonsa de l\u2019Immacul\u00e9e Conception (1910-1946), une s\u0153ur de la Congr\u00e9gation des Clarisses Franciscaines (FCC), une congr\u00e9gation issue du Troisi\u00e8me Ordre Franciscain et apparue au Kerala.<\/p>\n
Apr\u00e8s quatorze ann\u00e9es d\u2019une vie difficile pass\u00e9e \u00e0 mendier, Pierre mourut, aur\u00e9ol\u00e9 de saintet\u00e9, le 21 juin 1958 et fut inhum\u00e9 \u00e0 Palayamkottai. Sa cause de b\u00e9atification fut engag\u00e9e par le dioc\u00e8se local en 2008.<\/p>\n
Jour de f\u00eate \u2013 21 juin.<\/p>\n
Sources\u00a0:<\/em><\/p>\n http:\/\/ofsindia.weebly.com\/our-patrons.html<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/kaptol.ofs.hr\/sluga-bozji-peter-reddy\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Peter Reddy, \u00e9galement connu sous le nom de Paul Chinnappa Reddiar ou Paradesi Peter (Pierre le p\u00e8lerin) est n\u00e9 le 30 avril 1895 \u00e0 Periooru, un village de la r\u00e9gion de Madurai, dans l\u2019\u00c9tat du Tamil Nadu, au sud-est de l\u2019Inde. Ses parents, hindous convertis au luth\u00e9ranisme, lui firent d\u00e9couvrir saint Fran\u00e7ois \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de […]<\/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":"fr","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\/fr\/author\/robert\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"Main Page<\/a> News<\/a> Saint of Month<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Peter Reddy, \u00e9galement connu sous le nom de Paul Chinnappa Reddiar ou Paradesi Peter (Pierre le p\u00e8lerin) est n\u00e9 le 30 avril 1895 \u00e0 Periooru, un village de la r\u00e9gion de Madurai, dans l\u2019\u00c9tat du Tamil Nadu, au sud-est de l\u2019Inde. 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