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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Blessed Peter Canisius |
 | | In 1536 Peter was sent to Cologne, where he studied arts, civil law, and theology at the university; he spent a part of 1539 at the University of Louvain, and in 1540 received the degree of Master of Arts at Cologne. |
 | | Nicolaus van Esche was his spiritual adviser, and he was on terms of friendship with such staunch Catholics as Georg of Skodborg (the expelled Archbishop of Lund), Johann Gropper (canon of the cathedral), Eberhard Billick (the Carmelite monk), Justus Lanspergius, and other Carthusian monks. |
 | | Although his father desired him to marry a wealthy young woman, on 25 February, 1540 he pledged himself to celibacy. |
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