Peter of Luxembourg

Son of the count of Saint-Pol, orphaned of his father at two and of his mother at eight, Peter was loaded with dignities his age made scandalous even in his own time: bishop of Metz at fourteen, cardinal at sixteen by the Avignon pope Clement VII. He answered them with extreme austerity — hair shirt, fasting, daily confession — and with care of the sick and of prisoners. He died of consumption on 2 July 1387, eighteen days before his eighteenth birthday, at Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. His tomb drew such crowds that his beatification was requested the following year; it came only in 1527.