Pierre de Bar[1] (died 1252, Perugia) was a French Cistercian, a papal legate and Cardinal. Perugia is the capital City of the region of Umbria in central Italy, near the Tiber river and the capital of the Province of Perugia A Papal Legate – from the Latin authentic Roman title Legatus – is a personal representative of the Pope to Foreign nations or to some part of the Catholic A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official usually a bishop, of the Catholic Church. He is also tentatively identified as a scholastic philosopher, at the University of Paris around 1230[2]. Scholasticism was the dominant form of theology and philosophy in the Latin West in the Middle Ages, particularly in the 12th 13th and 14th centuries The historic University of Paris (Université de Paris first appeared in the second half of the 13th century
He was apostolic administrator of the see of Palestrina in 1250, and bishop of Sabina in 1252, shortly before his death.
There is a portrait of him with Mary Magdalen, by Giotto, in the basilica of San Francesco, Assisi[3]. Saint Mary Magdalen or Mary Magdalene is described both in the canonical New Testament and in the New Testament apocrypha, as a devoted