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St. Peregrine Once Punched Another Saint — Now He’s the Patron Saint of Cancer Sufferers

LEFT: The Basilica of Our Lady of Sorrows in Chicago is the location of the National Shrine of St. Peregrine. RIGHT: Statue in the Peregrine Chapel of the Serra Chapel in Mission San Juan Capistrano [Photo by Mark Steven Brown].

May 1 is the feast day of St. Peregrine Laziosi, a 14th-century Servite priest