Peter Bacherius (Or Bakere)

Peter Bacherius (Or Bakere)

Bacherius (or Bakere), Peter

a Flemish Roman Catholic preacher, was born at Ghent in 1517. At the age of twenty he became a Dominican, and studied under Peter Soto. He was one of the most celebrated preachers of his day, and died Feb. 12, 1601. He wrote, Misoliturgie (Ghent, 1556), against those who despised the mass:-Le Miroir de la Milice Chretienne: - Homilies on the Epistles for Lent (Douai, 1599,1604): - Homilies on the Gospels for All the Sundays of the Year (Louvain, 1576):-Gerelle Conjugale entre l'Homme et la Femme, etc.