ABSTRACT
In 1391 the Guelf party in Spoleto won a victory that carried it to power in the city. The faction leader claimed to have seen a vision of Peter routing the anti-papal forces. He ascribed the victory, falling on 29 April, to Peter's intervention. In the fourteenth century Bridget of Sweden reported a vision that a nun had of Peter Martyr and Peter the Apostle together leading her to heaven. Catherine of Siena had repeated visions of her Dominican confrere. Peter's cult became a contentious issue during the Great Western Schism, and the capitular legislation records the sad division of the Dominican order. The cult of Peter Martyr continued to be popular, especially in the Mediterranean countries. Societies dedicated to him continued to spring up in Italy and in Spain. His popularity in Spanish domains, and especially among the Spanish Inquisition, proved to be the key for the worldwide expansion of his cult.
