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    Peter Faber

    Jesuit priest and evangelist (1506–1546)

    For other people named Peter Faber, see Peter Faber (disambiguation).

    Peter Faber, SJ (French: Pierre Lefevre or Favre, Latin: Petrus Faver) (13 April 1506 – 1 August 1546)[1] was a Savoyard Catholic priest, theologian and co-founder of the Society of Jesus, along with Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier.

    Pope Francis announced his canonization in 2013.

    Life

    Early life

    Faber was born in 1506 to a peasant family in the village of Villaret, in the Duchy of Savoy (now Saint-Jean-de-Sixt in the French Department of Haute-Savoie).

    As a boy, he was a shepherd in the high pastures of the French Alps.[2] He had little education, but a remarkable memory; he could hear a sermon in the morning and then repeat it verbatim in the afternoon for his friends.[1] Two of his uncles were Carthusian priors.[3] At first, he was entrusted to the care of a priest at Thônes and later to a schoo