He was found dead in his home on Saturday afternoon, February 18. Finally he approached the man, heard his confession, kissed his wounds, and applied his own tongue to the most offensive. In the shanties, his first concern was to pick up the dying off the mud floor onto which many had collapsed, and to place them on mats. In the afternoon hours he would hear only the confessions of the Negresses, and then, in the evening, beginning at six oclock, he would devote himself strictly to the men. To the cynical mind the trust of this extraordinary priest in the goodness of human nature must have seem nave and no doubt could he have known he would have been far more often disappointed than not. Settling the New World and stealing from that New World brought with it the necessity of cheap labor, human labor . This, of course, he had never done, except conditionally in cases of doubt, but he was nevertheless forbidden to baptize in the future. His Mass, which followed, was deliberately short. Some cases involved actual diabolic manifestations. #BreakingNews Housekeeper's Husband Admits to Murder of Beloved Catholic Bishop David O'Connell of Los Angeles, California, Prayer to St. Christopher for Safe Travels and Motorists, #BreakingNews a Catholic Priest and 3 Nuns Killed in a Car Accident in India - RIP, Pope Francis Explains how to Defeat the Devil's 3 Temptations "The divine Word that is Jesus answer to the temptation of the devil. Leo Landoll stood at the altar of God and spoke the words of consecration and for the first time Jesus Christ, body and soul became present in a small white church that had recently been a private home. When he is starved, he is dumb. For two months, these blacks had been chained and shackled below deck in a floating hell, the men in one compartment, the women in another. The walls of Cartagena silently echoed the solemn news as it was piously whispered in every corner, The Saint is dying! He cured the sick almost routinely and there were times when he even raised the dead. They were packed together like sardines in a can, left to wallow in their own sweat, vomit, urine and human waste. He was much more than that to the Negroes. His Lenten sermons were so moving that, due to them hundreds of young men, ex-libertines, and widowers, sought entry into the different orders that served the spiritual and corporal needs of the city. Then there were the black agents who, under the pay of whites, scoured the coasts with products to sell, often unsheathing concealed weapons in order to take the unsuspecting victims into captivity by force. While he was studying philosophy at Majorca in 1605, Alphonsus Rodriguez, the saintly door-keeper of the college, learned from God the future mission of his young associate, and thenceforth never ceased exhorting him to set out to evangelize the Spanish possessions in America. Much as men are willing to forgive those, who wrong them, yet they' never . There was another sail that was a dreaded sight for a Cartagenian, a sail that used to make Father Sandoval, Clavers instructor in the science of charity, tremble and break out in a cold sweat- the sail of the slave ship! If you donate just $5.00, the price of your coffee, Catholic Online School could keep thriving. St. Christo, A Catholic Priest and 3 Nuns were Killed in a Car Accident in India. The healing occurred at St. Joseph's parish in. Besides visiting the slave huts, the zealous father had other apostolates that he lovingly attended to: the hospital of St. Sebastian, the leprosarium of St Lazarus, and the prisons. Copyright 2022 Catholic Online. During the time that the blacks spent in the sheds, they were penned so closely that they had to sleep almost upon one another and, thereby, freely handed on their diseases nonetheless, Claver was seen caring for the bodies of the sick and the souls of all. The Sisters of St Peter Claver were founded by Blessed Theresa Ledchowska. These kinds of individuals stood out from among the rest. Late in 1861, a sharp piece of iron bruised his chest, resulting in . The rumor of his approaching death spread around the city like wildfire, everyone suddenly remembered the saintly priest again, and numbers came to kiss his hands before it was too late; his room was stripped of everything that could be carried off as relics. In teaching his pupils religion he loved to use pictures. The Jesuits -Isaac Jogues, John de Brebeuf, Noel Chabanel and their companions have their blood soaked indelibly in American soil around the same time Claver was in Cartagena. Exploiters of the Indians are instruments of Satan for the forced servitude of human beings of any race, Christian or not, is a thing abhorrent and damnable. Unfortunately, the Pope was far away from the scene of the crime nor was his strength in arms, but rather in the faith of his subjects, who chose at times to ignore him. But when he saw the condition of Africans in the stinking slave pens of Cartagena, Colombia, he became bold and outspoken. Until death! the good father quietly responded. A galleon would contain, besides new immigrants, badly needed supplies and medicines, and of course, news and mail. He was born in 1580 into a prosperous farming family in the Spanish village of Verdu, Catalua. St. Peter Claver (1580-1654) was a Jesuit who, due to his life and work, became the patron saint of slaves, Colombia and African Americans. Your Catholic Voice Foundation has been granted a recognition of tax exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. So Claver gave it none- except what was absolutely necessary to sustain life. Strangely enough, when the man saw the saint he called out to him, Oh my Father! Claver came from an ethic of religious consecration where missionaries dared death, hardship, sickness and every conceivable challenge to bring the gospel to foreign lands. Until death, he was politely told. Not long afterward the venerable archdeacon fell grievously ill. As he was being carried to the hospital through the citys streets in a litter, he saw Father Claver and exclaimed It is time, Father; it is time for me to accomplish the promise I made to God and to you, embracing the religion of my ancestors. And so he did. Claver was not always well received. Give your warning sign if danger is near so that I may stop while the path is clear. The vicar general of the diocese officiated at the funeral. He became the apostle of Cartagena as well as of the Africans and in so huge a work was aided by God with those gifts that particularly pertain to apostles, of miracles, of prophecy and of reading hearts. Some rights reserved. The very sight of these adandoned lepers was enough to send chills up ones spine. Clavers problem was that he was sensitive. Forts also lined the harbor. The entire house, having been informed of Father Clavers condition, came silently into the infirmary. The slave ship, having been anchored in the harbor, suddenly had its hatch yanked open and the light of the sun flooded in upon the prisoners wretchedness. Claver made use of pictures, in accordance with standard catechetical pedagogy of the time, showing our Lord suffering on the cross for them; above all did he try to instill in them some degree of self respect, to give them at least some idea that as redeemed human beings they had dignity and worth, even if as slaves they were outcast and despised. The hospital, run by the religious of St John of God, was almost always overcrowded, due to the scourge of frequent epidemics and continual warfare. Enslaved people were brought over from Africa to work the sugar fields. He was too busy loving to worry about hating. Yesterday, May 30, 1627, on the feast of the Most Holy Trinity, numerous blacks, brought from the rivers of Africa, disembarked from a large ship. His feast is observed throughout the Americas and other places around the world on the 9th of September. From whom does the devil want to divide Jesus? He loved to entertain. Herbs, potatoes, a little rice, or a banana made up his diet; a mat on a board with a log for a pillow made up his bed; only three hours of the night were occupied in an attempt at rest; and then there were his penances. During Lent and on the major feat days, he would go about the city inviting all to a thorough house cleaning. The women, in particular, would shed abundant tears while embracing each other in great joy. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud. The pastor of St Peter Claver in New Orleans, who has been on leave since the revelation of an abuse allegation in January, has responded with a lawsuit of his own. The doctors recognized such a miracle and it was later authenticated by the Vatican in 1887, leading to Peter Claver's canonization in 1888. While studying philosophy at Majorca, the young religious was influenced by St. Alphonsus Rodriguez to go to the Indies and save "millions of perishing souls.". And in fact, convinced as they were that they had been brought here to be eaten, any other language would have proved utterly useless. Hence, the nefarious exploitation and commerce of slavery, for there was no industry to speak of, only raw human labor for which the royals and their cohorts deemed themselves unworthy. In the past, when he came home from such missions, he was usually so reduced physically that he looked like a walking skeleton. It's a little awkward to ask, but we need your help. The Superior of the college arranged for the two of them to spend fifteen minutes a day conversing about spiritual things. So, from Jesuit priestly ranks arose this dreamer, the young man Peter Claver, of upper middle class bearing, born in the city of Verdu in Catalonia about the year 1581. The Africans and Indians arranged for a Mass of their own to which the Spanish authorities were invited; the church was ablaze with lights, a special choir sang and an oration was delivered by the treasurer of the church of Popayan, where the diaries say of the speaker no other preacher was more diffuse on the virtues, holiness, heroism and stupendous miracles of Father Claver.. To prevent excessive dampness, someone had thought of building up a mound with a mixture of tiles and broken pieces of brick. As a dressing for the wounds of the whipping, he wore over them a soothing full-length hairshirt. Father Peter Claver never fully recovered consciousness and died two days later on the birthday of Mary, the Mother of God, September 8, about two oclock in the morning, in the year of our Lord 1654. The saints searches for the sick and the abandoned took him frequently to the beaches, where occasionally, some poor aged or hopelessly maimed Negro would be dumped off by a heartless master to die. The saint made it so simple for their confused and despairing consciences that not one of Cartagenas condemned criminals went to his execution unrepentant. When a language was unuasually remote, Father Peter would have to speak through a chain of five or six interpreters to get across his message. Nor did he cease consoling them with kind words and gestures, for the Negroes all had one beautiful trait in common; they were extremely sensitive to a harsh word or a kind one. Sometimes, Claver would spend almost the entire day in the great square of the city, where the four principal streets met, preaching to all who would stop to listen. The Jesuits were delighted to receive their new novice, as he had already merited for himself distinctive recognition for exceptional scholastic achievements at Barcelona. All they could muster was to protest and devote themselves to individual ministrations, physical, spiritual and material, to the tens of thousands of suffering human beings brought to these shores. Fr. 8.00 am - 4.00 pm Telephone (07) 3810 5900 Fax (07) 3282 3190 Email. Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. He became the prophet and miracle worker of New Granada, the oracle of Cartagena, and all were convinced that often God would not have spared the city save for him. At fourteen, he left home to pursue his vocation at the college in Barcelona. They had no charitable funds at their disposal, no plaudits from well-disposed audiences; they were hampered and discouraged by the owners and often rebuffed by the slaves themselves. Sept. 9: ST. PETER CLAVER, PRIEST. When the saint received his commission to pack his things, he burst into tears and kissed the document as if it were the most precious relic. Like all young men of his stripe he looked for adventure and new opportunities. Saint Paul, who never actually condemned slavery as such, nevertheless elevated the slave as equal in Gods eyes to the free, thereby inflicting slavery with a mortal wound. Your captains and mates must neither have dainty fingers nor dainty noses,few men are fit for these voyages but them that are bred up to it. Extra ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the Church there is no salvation). After all, it is a lot easier to love those who are clean than to love those who are not. The very day that the Holy Virgin, to whom he was so tenderly devoted, entered time, the slave of Mary and of the Negroes entered eternity. It was this very notebook the dying apostle clasped to his breast on his deathbed, only releasing it for the benefit of novices at the Jesuit Novitiate in Tunga in the mountains of Colombia. Why? Peter Claver was spiritually mailed to the Cross of Jesus in Cartagena. We are all sinners. Nothing could be done to keep them away. On Ash Wednesday, which begins the 40 day period of lent, a time of prayer and fasting, Wahlberg encouraged viewers to take up a lenten penance. The entire city came out to pay him their respects. Nor was the saint known to into ecstasies at the altar. The holy man had no time to lose. In that way we covered a space to which we at last transferred the sick, by forcing a passage through bands of slaves. . In addition, African chiefs easily bartered away to the white traders their criminals, those captured in war, the mentally unstable, and the sick and other social misfits. Claver died fifty years later on the feastday of the Black Virgin, which is also her birthday, September 8th. As one writer puts it, Piety only offends when implies a censorious verdict on the impious, for it is preachiness, not preaching, that most people resent. Of course, at times Claver knew he had to be very direct, as he was on one occasion when he said to a man about to leave the city in the company of a loose-living woman, It bothers me to see you about to travel with the devil. The arrow struck fast and so tormented the sinners conscience that he returned that very night to the rectory, and in sobs unburdened his sinful life to the ears of the holy priest. We asked them to make an act of contrition and to manifest their detestation of their sins. 36 St Peter Claver by Shining Light Dolls on desktop and mobile. When he slept, or tried to sleep, he removed only the neck rope and the crown of thorns. Two orders, the Trinitarians and the Order of Mercy had this for their object. He was born on the Island of Sardinia. The saint spent one more year in the Novitiate at Tunga, high in the mountains of Colombia. It was necessary for him to taste the abandonment of the cross. A rich merchant once called him to his house to give the sacraments to a dying Negro who was one mass of ulcers. The Saint is dying! Suddenly, the sad reality dawned on the multitude, who awakened as from a trance, and they all, black and white, rich and poor, made their way to the Jesuit house. Then he and his aides would distribute foods, biscuits, preserves, fruits, tobacco, liquors, and such like gifts to win their confidence and rouse them from their lethargy. Few saints carried out their active work in more repulsive conditions than did Claver, but these privations were not enough; in accordance with the popular pious practices of Catholics of that time Claver was known to continuously use penitential instruments of a severe description and would pray alone in his room with a crown of thorns pressed to his head and a heavy cross weighing down his shoulders. If their depraved keepers were particularly cruel, they left the dead as they were, chained to the living, below the decks, where no fresh air could enter to relieve them even slightly. The miracles, the sermons, the labors in the confessional, the work with all the poor and the sick, the charity for all the Negroes, seemed to be temporarily forgotten by all as the saint silently prayed for death to come. Oddly enough, these men whom Claver used as interpreters were his own slaves. His loving solicitude for these co-laborers was so great that if any of them fell sick he would give them his own bed, while he slept on the floor next to the sick man, so that he might be able to wait on him continually. He was received into the novitiate of Tarragona at the age of 20 and was sent to the college of Montesione at Palma in Majorca, Spain. The Sisters of St Peter Claver were founded by Blessed Theresa Ledchowska. The slaves were disembarked, and found to be routinely chained and roped together and shut up in the yards where crowds came to watch them, idle gazers wrote Father de Sandoval, drawn by curiosity and careful not to come too close. Hundreds of men, women and children who had been for several weeks shut up without even the care given to cattle in the ships hold, were now fatigued, ill or dying, herded together in a confined space in a climate that was unwholesome from dampness and heat. A number of other Englishmen followed his example. Spain brought a cease to trafficking in slaves in 1850. To care for the slaves he must totally subject his own flesh and subdue it. The U.S. bishops have invited Catholics to observe the day with fasting and prayer for an end to racism in the United States. Upon his reception into the novitiate, Claver inscribed these words into his notebook as to the reason motivating him to a religious life, to become a saint, he wrote, and a very great saint. Brother Alonso, as the Spaniards called him, not only held the key to the college, but he also had the key to Peter Clavers heart. The Negroes were especially affected; Peter Claver had been a real father to them. Thousands of times, during his forty years in the world of pain, he would take off that cloak and use it. When there was time and opportunity he took the same trouble to teach them how properly to use the sacrament of penance and in one year is said to have heard the confessions of more than five thousand. It was an era of expansion. Amen. I entreat of those who read it, He said as he lay dying, to pray to God for a sinner, who having such a precious mine at his disposal, instead of drawing from it the pure gold of sanctity, has collected nothing but rust.. Episode 364: What Is the Point of Lent? He was said to have the gift of prophecy as well as the ability to read souls. These blacks had come from a depraved, idolatrous, and cruel civilization. A priest was baptizing Negroes with the Blood. St Peter Claver Prison Ministry is a faith-based mentorship program empowering the incarcerated, ex-offenders and their families obtain self-sufficiency and reduce recidivism. He was beatified 16 July, 1850, Pius IX, and canonized 15 January, 1888, by Leo XIII. That melancholic countenance was first stamped upon him when he was introduced to the real world of human misery. With a precision-made-second-nature-through-routine, the good father gathered together his little army with their provisions and set out to battle. . Civil authorities, among his harshest critics, who had looked askance at his solicitude for mere slaves and the clergy who had called his zeal indiscrete now vied with one another to honor his memory. Many an ivory cheek ran with tears as the Spaniards listened in wonder to the angelic voices of the slaves resounding from the walls of the Jesuit Church with an incomparably touching rendition of the Dies Irae or a triumphant Gloria. What sort of a man must I be, that I cannot do a little good without causing so much confusion? Claver would ask. There was hardly a Pope who had to face the problem when it surfaced after about a thousand-year dormation, that did not condemn it. Visit the website Show place on Google Maps. He immediately made inquiry. Lord, I love thee much, much, much.. Many of these poor unfortunates had been torn from their families in their prime of life. Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike License. Another saint whom he had known at school in Majorca, Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez, revealed his road in life to him. Their bodies were hastily thrown overboard to the sharks. The riches of those countries are prized whilst the peoples are despised. In those days, there was hardly such a thing as racial prejudice. Episode 362: Virgo Post Partum: A Married Virgin? The science of the school of Peter Claver was the art of dealing with pain, and of knowing its worth. His hands and clothing were instantly covered with infectious filth. St. Peter Claver. St. Christopher, holy patron of travelers, protect me, and lead me safely to my destiny. Source: "Saint a Day" "St. Peter Claver (1581 A. D. - 1654 A. D.): by temperament, Father Peter Claver was shy. Carrying two baskets of oranges, lemons, sweet biscuits, and I know not what else, we hurried toward them. People who were so horribly afflicted that they were actually shunned by their fellow lepers. As one of Clavers biographers put it: In an age where man could become so subhuman, others were needed who were superhuman.. However, the consideration of the problem of his wife and family, who would resent the temporal loss that would go with his renouncing of the Church of England, prevented the weak man from doing his duty to God right away, though he did promise to do so before he died. After being brutally beaten, raped, starved, maimed, tortured and terrorized, despite deaths from riots, suicides, lynchings, pestilence and disease, beyond those thrown overboard, an average ten thousand living slaves were landed in Cartagena each year. By far the greatest damage the devil suffered from Father Claver was in the confessional, though some of us may cringe when we consider his methods of extracting vice. Another saint whom he had known at school in Majorca, Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez, revealed his road in life to him. Episode 361: Whether God Exists? the Five Proofs, The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Outside the Church there is no Salvation (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus), Saint Benedict Center in Richmond, New Hampshire, Brother Francis, M.I.C.M. [in lingua hispanica] A. Valtierra, S.J., San Pedro Claver, Cartagena, 1964, pp. St Peter Claver worked for decades to help enslaved people. On September sixth, two Negroes carried Father Claver to the chapel where he received Holy Communion with the devotion of a seraph. How beautifully did his words echo on their souls as he spoke to them of the infinite value of their cross if only they should bear it with joy and patience. Due to the importance of this apostolate, Rome was willing to allow an exception to its canon forbidding clerics to own slaves. Her condition, thank God, suddenly improved and both she and the baby are well. Again he sent a formal letter asking his superiors to grant his request. All it needed was this seed from the wise master, Alonso. In the early centuries of Christianity, slavery gradually began to be phased out. | Prioress: Sister Marie Thrse, M.I.C.M. The son of a Catalonian farmer, was born at Verdu, in 1581; he died on the 8th of September, 1654. To Claver, the poorest of the poor were truly the least of His brethren and heirs to a kingdom not of this world. Brother Rodriguez was an old man when he first laid eyes on the new student from Barcelona, but holiness knows no age; it matures and grows, but it is still the Presence of God in a soul. New lands to the west crossing the Atlantic Ocean had been discovered two hundred years previous. Amen. He had baptized and taught the faith to more than 300,000 slaves during his four decades in Cartagena. However, the monarchs, principally in Spain, did often lash out against the horrid abuses of a greedy and ugly system that they should never even have tolerated. Every year from twelve to fourteen slave ships entered the port of Cartagena. According to the research of Hugh Thomas, an estimated eleven million blacks were brought to the Americas for uncompensated labor in the course of the period, 1440-1870. Was Performed at the Shrine of St. Joseph in St. Louis, MO. Daring explorers had sailed west and conquered new territories for the crown. St Peter is known as the "Apostle to the Slaves." Tellingly, she named it after the Jesuit who tried to alleviate the suffering of African slaves transported to South America in the early seventeenth century, is estimated to have personally baptised around 300,000 people, and became the patron saint of slaves and seafarers. When by their answers to our questions they showed they had sufficiently understood this, we went on to a more extensive instruction, namely, about the one God, who rewards and punishes each one according to his merit, and the rest. He studied at the Jesuit college of Barcelona, entered the Jesuit novitiate at Tarragona in 1602 and took his final vows on August 8th, 1604. When we approached their quarters, we thought we were entering another Guinea. There were times when he even raised the dead with it. To counter the Protestant revolt, the Jesuits, founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola, had emerged from among the most talented of religious leaders for their time sworn to allegiance to their superior general and to the pope in Rome. Taste the abandonment of the Holy Spirit man saw the saint known to into ecstasies at the Shrine of Joseph. His vocation at the Shrine of St. Joseph & # x27 ; never program empowering incarcerated. 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