Eleventh-century Benedictine monk
An 11th-century Benedictine monk who pushed hard enough for church reform that he landed in Dante's Paradiso and earned a Doctor of the Church title seven centuries after his death.
Born around 1007 in Italy, Peter Damian entered the Benedictine order and became one of the fiercest voices for reform in a church riddled with corruption. He moved in the circle of Pope Leo IX, was made cardinal, and spent his life writing and agitating to pull the clergy back toward discipline. He died in February 1072 or 1073. Dante later placed him high in Paradiso, calling him a great predecessor of Francis of Assisi. In 1828, the Church formally declared him a Doctor, canonizing not just the man but the rigor he represented.
Sourced, dated quotes from Peter Damian
Let that ancient dragon, Cadalus, take note. Let this disturber of the Church, this destroyer of apostolic discipline, this enemy of man’s salvation understand.
But if I have erred in anything, I gladly come before the teaching authority of Peter.
Any cleric or monk who seduces young men or boys, or who is apprehended in kissing or in any shameful situation, shall be publicly flogged and shall lose his clerical tonsure.
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