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From Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, Matthew Bunson

Saint Peter Damien (1007-1072)
Doctor of the church and important reformer, joining the Benedictine order at Fonte Avellana in 1035. Named cardinal of Ostia in 1057, Peter became widely known and respected for his tireless efforts in opposing corruption, simony, concubinage and other clerical abuses. He was a vigorous opponent of the antipopes and served as a diplomat to Germany and France for the papacy. The author of sermons and letters he also wrote treatises and attacks on corruption, including Liber gratissimus, opposing the legitimacy of simoniac ordinations, and the well-known Liber gomorrhianus, an attack on clerical marriage.

No bibliography. Not in Dictionary of Middle Ages.

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