What is Peter the Aleut?
{{Infobox saint |name= Saint Peter the Aleut |birth_date=possibly around 1800 |death_date=1815 |feast_day=September 24 |venerated_in= [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] |image=Saint Peter the Aleut.jpg |imagesize=300px |caption= Icon of St. Peter the Aleut |titles=Martyr of San Francisco and Protomartyr of America |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by= |canonized_date=1980 |canonized_place= |canonized_by=Orthodox Church in America |attributes=portrayed as an Aleut youth, wearing a traditional gut parka<ref name=icon>[http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/icons/icon_peter_aleut.html Icon: St. Peter the Aleut] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303171308/http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/icons/icon_peter_aleut.html |date=2016-03-03 }}, [[Creighton University]]</ref> |patronage= |major_shrine= |suppressed_date= |issues= }} '''Peter the Aleut''' (d. 1815), also known as '''Cungagnaq''', is a [[saint]] in some parts of the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]]. He was a native of Kodiak Island in what is now [[Alaska]] (being a member of the [[wikipedia:Alutiiq|Alutiiq]] people). He received the name '''Peter''' when he was [[baptized]] as a [[Christian]] by Herman of Alaska's missionaries operating to the north.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.allsaintsofamerica.org/st-peter-aleu/|title=St. Peter the Aleu - allsaintsofamerica.org|newspaper=allsaintsofamerica.org|access-date=2017-06-24|language=en-US}}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He is said to have been captured by Spanish soldiers working near San Pedro (thought to be [[San Francisco]] or somewhere else in southern [[California]]). ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:1815 deaths]] [[Category:Christian saints]]