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Rainerius
Sign in to saveRainerius (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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Key facts
- 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.
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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.
==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.