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Saint Peter Nolasco (1189 – 6 May 1256) Pere Nolasc in Catalan Pierre Nolasque in French and Pedro Nolasco in Spanish is a Catholic saint born at Mas-des-Saintes-Puelles Languedoc today’s France although some historians claim he was born in Barcelona (see Encyclopædia Britannica).It is clear that he was in Barcelona when he was a teenager became part of an army fighting the Moors in the Iberian peninsula and was appointed tutor to the young king James I of Aragon.
