St. Peter Canisius
Dec 21
Patron Saint of the Catholic Press and Germany
St. Peter Canisius is rightly considered the second apostle of Germany after St. Boniface.
Peter Kanis – his name was later Latinized to “Canisius” – was born in Nijmegen, Holland, then a German province of the archdiocese of Cologne. He originally thought of becoming a lawyer to please his father, a wealthy public official, but after a retreat directed by St. Peter Faber, one of the first companions of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the young Canisius decided to become a Jesuit.