Peter Donders, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Peter Donders

Dutch Roman Catholic missionary

Date of Birth: 27-Oct-1809

Place of Birth: Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands

Date of Death: 14-Jan-1887

Profession: theologian

Nationality: Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Blessed Petrus Norbert Donders (27 October 1809 – 14 January 1887) was a Dutch Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Redemptorists.
He served in the missions in Suriname where he tended to the native inhabitants and the lepers; he worked in both Paramaribo and Batavia where he died.
Donders' poverty during his youth saw him unable to begin his studies for the priesthood.
Later generous benefactors helped to enable him to complete his studies.
Right after ordination he was sent to Suriname to tend to the natives there and he was never to return to his native land.Donders was beatified in mid-1982 in Saint Peter's Square.
The miracle that led to that was the cure of a Dutch child from bone cancer back in 1929.