Rainerius

Rainerius (c. 1115/1117 – 1160) is the patron saint of Pisa and patron saint of travellers. His feast day is June 17, his name may also be spelled Raynerius, Rainerius, Rainier, Raineri, Rainieri, Ranieri, Raniero, or Regnier.

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Died: ca. 1348
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Saint.honorific_prefix: Saint
Saint.name: Rainerius
Saint.birth_date: c. 1115/1117
Saint.death_date: c. 1160
Saint.feast_day: June 17
Saint.venerated_in: Roman Catholic Church
Saint.image: 'Saint Rainerius' by Cecco di Pietro.jpg
Saint.imagesize: 200px
Saint.caption: Saint Rainerius by Cecco di Pietro
Saint.death_place: Pisa, Italy
Saint.canonized_by: Pope Alexander III
Saint.attributes: depicted as a bearded hermit in a hairshirt holding a rosary; as a young pilgrim in a hairshirt carrying a banner with the Pisan cross; as being raised up by devils; or as dying in a hairshirt.
Saint.patronage: Pisa; travellers
Saint.major_shrine: Duomo di Pisa

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Image: Andrea di Bonaiuto - Scenes from the Life of St Rainerus (detail) - WGA00312.jpg

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Commons category: Saint Rainerius
date of birth: 1118-00-00
date of death: 1161-06-17

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==Life== Rainerius was the son of Gandulfo Scacceri, a prosperous merchant and shipowner of Pisa, and Mingarda Buzzaccherini. In his youth, he was a traveling musician. Later biographies stress his worldliness at this stage. He met, through his travels, a holy man, Alberto, a nobleman from Corsica "who wore a cloak of animal hair, like a goat", and had entered the monastery of Saint Vitus (San Vito) in Pisa and become renowned for his work for the poor. Rainerius was so impressed that he became a devout Christian.