life of St. Peter of Alcantara.
Contributors: Beauvais, Gilles-François de, 1693-ca. 1773; Faber, Frederick William, 1814-1863; Oratorians
Series: Saints and servants of God
Publisher: Edward Dunigan and Brothers
Published: 1856
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Azevedo, Inácio de, -- 1526-1570; Peter, -- of Alcantara, Saint, -- 1499-1562
Other titles: The lives of St. Peter of Alcantara, and of the Ven. Father Ignatius Azevedo, of the Society of Jesus.
Work titles: Vita del b. Pedro d'Alcantara.
Notes: Vol. 2 has title: The lives of St. Peter of Alcantara, and of the Ven. Father Ignatius Azevedo, of the Society of Jesus.  The history of his martyrdom and that of his thirty-nine companions, copied from the processes instituted with a view to his canonization.  By Father de Beauvais, S.J.

"The ... Life of St. Peter of Alcantara is a translation from the work of Father Marchese of the Roman oratory, and is translated from the French edition published at Lyons in 1670." Cf. Pref., v.1.

Preface signed: F.W. Faber. St Mary's, Sydenham Hill. Feast of St. Barnabas, 1856.

The original work, in Italian, was published in Rome, in 1667, under title: Vita del b. Pedro d'Alcántara.

Fisher Regis copy: In original commercial green cloth binding blind-stamped with the "sigillum Patrum Congregat. Oratorii Sti. Philippi Nerii" and with the bookstamp of the R.R.P.P. Jèsuites [sic], Fort-William, Mission, Ont.