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His memorial is celebrated on September 9. Another excess that occupied his zeal and caused him great anxiety was certain pagan festivals and rites that weak Christians sometimes slipped back into. Cartagena was a central stopping point for this inhuman traffic. Through his prayer help us to see the true dignity of the human family, all children of one father and to spend ourselves for their salvation. He, his wife, and daughter settled in St. Josephs Parish in St. Louis, Missouri. If you donate just $5.00, the price of your coffee, Catholic Online School could keep thriving. Masters were willingly freeing their slaves. 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. Until death, he was politely told. Father Claver never tired of persuading the slaves from the occasions of sin or of urging the owners to care for the souls of the slaves; he became so great a moral force in Cartagena that a story is told of a slave frightening off a prostitute who was pestering him in the street saying, Look, here comes Father Claver. And the woman ran away. One poor prisoner, won to God by Father Claver, penned these pathetic words in his prayer book after receiving the death sentence: This book belongs to the happiest man in the world. On September sixth, two Negroes carried Father Claver to the chapel where he received Holy Communion with the devotion of a seraph. The supreme charity of our saint was most vividly portrayed in his solicitude for the sick; and Cartagena, in its infant years, had plenty of sick and very sick people. 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. Wahlberg who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, is a practicing Catholic. FOR THE FEAST DAY OF ST. PETER CLAVER. Give your warning sign if danger is near so that I may stop while the path is clear. St. Peter Claver Parish, which was founded in 1886 and administered by the Holy Ghost (Spiritan) Fathers, was Philadelphia's first designated African American parish. The science of the school of Peter Claver was the art of dealing with pain, and of knowing its worth. Absentee Line: (07) 3810 5950 The Africans, themselves, profited by the use of slave labor; the Mohammedans made a religion of it; the Egyptian built their civilization by it; the Greek philosophers were left free to leisurely contemplate reality on account of it; the Romans conquered and disciplined the world through it; the Chinese built walls to keep out foreigners by it; Germans goose-stepped to it; the Hebrews of the Old Testament, though they had laws protecting slaves, profited by it; and the One-Worlders of our day would like to revive it, as they have been attempting to do on a world scale by their monetary power. The resident Jesuits, despite the utter poverty of their quarters, gave their newly arrived brothers a hearty welcome, and immediately afterwards Claver was summoned up the Magdalena River to the capital city of Santa Fe de Bogota to finish his theology. 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. 36 St Peter Claver by Shining Light Dolls on desktop and mobile. There they stood looking at a man they knew so well, whose holiness, ecstasies, and extraordinary virtues had so inspired them, and yet perhaps not a few accused themselves of not having profited enough by his presence among them. As one biographer put it, Like the Cid, even the dead corpse of Claver conquers the Moors.. Claver couldnt remove the cross but he could make it sweet. But for every chore he performed, whether it was sweeping the floors, changing linens, washing clothes or dishes, or cooking, the visiting Jesuit, in his humility, always first asked permission of the Superior. Even Mohammedans thought him fascinating, and many found it difficult to resist his entreaties for very long. So also, must Gods servant be ut iumentum factus sum apud te.. But his sullen-ness and even the sadness reflected from his deep-set eyes were not the result of his excessive mortification. This miraculous healing led to the canonization of Peter Claver as a saint of the Catholic Church. The agony and misery of this human cargo, crammed into the holds of these galleons, defies an adequate description. Again at two oclock he would return after a scanty meal and a meditation. He studied the science of the saints at the feet of this lay brother. In 1610, he landed at Cartagena (modern Colombia), the principle slave market of the New World, where a thousand slaves were landed every month. Peter Claver crossed the seas but once, and never quitted, for the rest of his life, the country to which obedience restricted him. I love Thee very much. The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary were founded in 1949 by Father Leonard Feeney, M.I.C.M. Stay up to date with the latest news, information, and special offers. I never heard him complain. St. Peter Claver had seven interpreters, one of whom spoke four African dialects. In this case, the dignitary was the governor himself, Don Jeronimo Zueso Cassola, the same man who raced to tell Father Claver the good news. Famous actor and producer, Mark Wahlberg, age 51, went on NBC's the Today Show to discuss Lent. In gratitude for the Fayette parish's support, the Voices of Peter Claver is opening the January concert to the public. On that day Fr. He is known as the "Apostle of the West Indies" and the "Slave to the Slaves." Peter Claver was born in Verdu, Catalonia, on July 26, 1580, of prosperous parents. Many of the missionaries were tortured and flayed alive especially among the Iroquois nation. Thou gavest life, I pray no act of mine may take away or mar that gift of Thine (continues below). Nor was the saint known to into ecstasies at the altar. In fact, her body was being prepared for the funeral shroud. All of them died on the spot. About a third of them died on the forced journey from Africa and many more would lose their lives in the subsequent years . While he preached, he suffered. [in lingua hispanica] A. Valtierra, S.J., San Pedro Claver, Cartagena, 1964, pp. 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. As a dressing for the wounds of the whipping, he wore over them a soothing full-length hairshirt. Pleased by the courtesy of the Catholic priest, the archdeacon asked him in Latin for a private interview. During his life he baptized and instructed in the Faith more than 300,000 negroes. After this we began an elementary instruction about baptism, that is, the wonderful effects of the sacrament on body and soul. From a letter written by Peter Claver, priest, to his superiors, written in the Spanish language, 31 May, 1627. epist. Claver would say frequently: We must speak to them with our hands before we try to speak to them with our lips. When he came upon any who were dying he baptized them and then sought out all babies born on the voyage that he might baptize them. The whites were also affected. A rich merchant once called him to his house to give the sacraments to a dying Negro who was one mass of ulcers. The problem with many of the Moslems was that they were slaves, and consequently, they despised Christianity because it was the religion of their captors. Never had any of them been loved as this man had loved them. This, then was their couch, a very uncomfortable one not only for that reason, but especially because they were naked, without any clothing to protect them. With their help, he was able to teach the Gospel with words that could be understood. The truck loaded with cement crossed the otherside of the divider after losing control and hit th, POPE FRANCIS ANGELUS Saint Peter's Square Sunday, 26 February 2023 ______________________________________ Dear brothers and sisters, buongiorno! John Asare-Dankwah ran the St Peter Claver church in New Orleans' historic Treme neighborhood from 2014 until early 2021, when a lawsuit alleging that he raped a boy on an out-of-state overnight trip years earlier prompted church officials to indefinitely suspend him from his role. They lay there together, in fear, like sardines, naked and bleeding in the cold damp of winter or the excruciating heat of summer, with but one daily feeding of corn and water to sustain them. Two orders, the Trinitarians and the Order of Mercy had this for their object. And in particular, he applied himself by word and prayer to regain the abandoned priests to a meaningful and holy life. 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. The most illustrious of his many conversions was that of an English prelate and his Protestant confreres. 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.. Saint Melania, a wealthy Roman matron, freed her 8,000 slaves at once. They requested that the Jesuits transfer his body to the church where the populace could see him for the last time and properly venerate his remains. Protect Your Family Resources News VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE: Dismantling Systemic Racism in America February 27, 2023 Cursed be the law of the false prophet Mahomet, as well as all those who follow it. And on and on the stories go. Slavery is not a European import to a perfectly virtuous non-European world. Claver was 73 years old. Thus the ordeal of being captured by another tribe, sold to European merchants, transported through a horrendous middle passage and ultimately enslaved as a marketable object in the New World -- these were events that were a radical rupture of ones entire spirit, soul and universe. The Miracle That Led To St. Peter Claver's Canonization. After assuring them that they were not going to be slain, he held up high the crucifix and told them of the God-man and what He had suffered for them. Geography would be forever altered. 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. Settling the New World and stealing from that New World brought with it the necessity of cheap labor, human labor . After a difficult voyage of some months, the ships landed at the New Granadan port of Cartagena, just below Panama, in the Gulf of Darien. No, the saint was moved by nothing less than the love for Christ whom he saw reflected in the least of his brethren. This extraordinary apostle was attracted to the beautiful things of Gods creation, like anyone else. St. Peter Claver was canonized in 1888. 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. He was much more than that to the Negroes. One Dutchman was particularly hard, and assaulted Father Claver verbally every time he saw him, shouting in his fury that the priest would never bewitch him as he did the others. Once, when commended for his apostolic zeal, he replied, It ought to be so but there is nothing but self indulgence in it; it is the result of my enthusiastic and impetuous temperament. Peter Claver reached stature as a saint of God having watched closely a leader in this work, Father Alfonso de Sandoval, a great Jesuit missionary who spent forty years in the service of the slaves, and after working under him, Peter Claver, having reached a spiritual pinnacle in his own self-understanding, declared himself the slave of the Negroes forever. Although, by nature shy and lacking to degree self confidence, Claver threw himself into the work and pursued it with enthusiasm, method and organization. Claver knew that the blacks were never going to see in their lifetime much, if any, material happiness on earth, certainly not the pie-in-the-sky utopias of Karl Marx and his disciple, Martin Luther King, Jr. Cartagena was hit with five major epidemics during Clavers apostleship (1615-1654). If the glory of Gods house concerns you, go to the Indies and save millions of these perishing souls.. In all he had eighteen. One shipload would average between five and six hundred blacks from as many as fifteen or twenty African nations or tribes. Claver enlisted bands of assistants, cajoling these people whether by money, goods or services, and as soon as a slave ship entered the port Claver dropped everything and went to wait on its living freight. The end result of that was the old mans conviction that he was in the wrong church. Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike License. There were two hospitals in Cartagena, one for general cases, served by the Brothers of St. John of God; this was St. Sebastians hospital; and another, of St. Lazarus, for lepers and those suffering from sexually transmitted disease. To Claver, they were all important. Much as men are willing to forgive those, who wrong them, yet they' never . Under the chaplaincy of this unique man, whose astounding charity to the slaves had been talked of even behind cell walls, the prisons were transformed into virtual monasteries. We made every effort to encourage them with friendly gestures and displayed in their presence the emotions which somehow naturally tend to hearten the sick. Brother Nicolas was downstairs and heard a noise from the upstairs room where Claver was bedded. He labored unceasingly for the salvation of the African slaves and the abolition of the Negro slave trade, and the love he lavished on them was something that transcended the natural order. St. Peter Claver (1580-1654), whose memorial we celebrate today, offers a timely witness as our nation reckons anew with the enduring scourge of racism. Once arrived he went to the Jesuit house of Santa Fe to complete his theology studies and was employed as well at the Jesuit residence as sacristan, porter, infirmarian and cook and was dispatched for his tertianship to the new house of the Jesuits at Tunja. A Sister of St. Peter Claver. Some rights reserved. They were especially amazed at the devoutness of the Catholic soldiers. Saint Christopher's Protection Prayer Dear Saint Christopher, protect me today in all my travels along the road's way. Since I am a bad priest, God no longer desires my services. Peter Claver, the man of action, was struck with a condition of almost total paralysis. Well, the good influence proved too much. The good governor also told the fathers that the city was going to defray the cost of the obsequies by which the people of Cartagena planned to honor their most distinguished citizen. His troops- eighteen Negro interpreters, a Jesuit brother, a pious woman or two, and usually some prominent Cartagenian official. The holy priest would bend over, and with his own arms, he would lift up the sickliest. I was able to track down the . 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. The entire house, having been informed of Father Clavers condition, came silently into the infirmary. In 1537, when the enslaving of the Indians was still more common than that of the blacks, this Pontiff thundered out in indignation. It was not an uncommon thing to see a man who had been a slave give Holy Communion to one who had been his master. He was born on the Island of Sardinia. With his familiar face no longer visible in the market and byways, people soon began to forget about the man they had so short a time ago nearly worshiped. For sure, the last thing anyone would do to avoid a disease would be to kiss the contagious sores, suck out poison and vermin from them, and wash the infections with ones own handkerchiefs. . 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.. St. Peter Claver became the faithful servant of slaves. The perfumed class had enough priests to care for them but the blacks had no one. M.J.K. The descendant of these six hundred English and Dutch converts can be seen to this very day in their blond-haired, blue-eyed progeny whom one may see walking the streets of Cartagena. What! One can hear the experts on the psychology of the underprivileged gasp- How dare he arouse guilt complexes with these victims of white racism!. RIVERVIEW QLD 4303 College Reception Hours. 6212NH Maastricht. Your sufferings are great, echoed the black-robed preacher, but not as great as you deserve. You are better off being a slave in America than a chief in Africa, he told them. It was reckoned that there would be a loss in each cargo by death during the six or seven weeks voyage of a least a third. St. Peter Claver's work came to an end with his death on September 8, 1654. The bishop's housekeeper's husband, Carlos Medina, a 61-year-old man arrested by Los Angeles County Sheriff deputies as the prime suspect in the murder. Our Present . Out from these massive bulwarks of stone peered formidable artillery batteries and sentinel boxes, where watchmen scoured the horizon for an enemy sail. 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. Worse still, kings encouraged rivals to crime so that they could be convicted and sold as criminals. He embraced lepers, kissed cancerous lesions, sucked out poison from running ulcers, washed the unclean and dined in their unsightly hovels, nor did he refrain even from eating food some despairing suicidals had rejected from their own mouths, in his determination to gain their confidence. Answered Prayers The magnificent Main Altar is the result of a pledge made by grateful parishioners who made a promise to St. Joseph. We're not salespeople, but we depend on donations averaging $14.76 and fewer than 1% of readers give. He came spoke to him with such an authority and efficacy that the obstinate Turk yielded and begged for baptism. Strecker's healing was among the miracles attributed to Claver that led to his 1888 canonization by Pope Leo XIII. 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. During his life he baptized and instructed in the Faith more than 300,000 negroes. There was nothing artificial about Peter Claver. After these preliminaries, there followed a most pathetic scene. St. Peter Claver Peter was born of a distinguished family in Catalonia, Spain in 1581. We laid aside our cloaks, therefore, and brought from a warehouse whatever was handy to build a platform. That is why Saint Peter Claver traveled such a lonely road. Saint Peter Claver,Priest and ReligiousMemorialSeptember 9th. Daring explorers had sailed west and conquered new territories for the crown. Here in the solitude of his confinement he suffered not only physically but also mentally. 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