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Martyr Peter the Aleut
Also known as: Cungagnaq; Protomartyr of America
Holy Martyr Peter, pray to God for us.
Brief Life An Orthodox Aleut youth captured by Spanish authorities in California and killed after refusing to abandon Orthodoxy; honored as the Protomartyr of America.
Feast Day(s) Sep 24
Rank / Type
Martyr
Church Status
ConvertLayperson
Life Experience
CaptivityPersecution
Virtue
Faith
Region of Origin
Alaska
Tradition of Veneration
North American
Era Modern
Century 19th
Gender Male
Notes Among the Synaxis of All Saints of Alaska.
Sources OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints