When he is starved, he is dumb. Address: Luikerweg 71. But many more, rank-and-file citizens would seek Father Claver out in the confessional where he had sometimes to spend fifteen hours at a stretch, reproving, advising, encouraging, and absolving. In Christianity, foremost of the apostles.His name was Simon but according to the gospels Jesus called him from his work as fisherman and gave him the name 'Cephas', the Aramaic equivalent of Greek 'Peter' (petra, 'rock').According to early tradition Peter visited Rome where he was martyred (1 Clement 5, etc. Others were lured like animals into anchored galleons by novel gadgets, bells, magnets, beads, and such gimmicks, only to see the huge vessels glide away from shore. Cartagena was a central stopping point for this inhuman traffic. St. Christopher, holy patron of travelers, protect me, and lead me safely to my destiny. 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. 1- Peter Heals the Crippled Beggar, Acts 3 1One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayerat three in the afternoon. September 9 marked the Feast of St. Peter Claver, a Jesuit priest who ministered to African slaves in Colombia in the 17th century. Then we sat, or rather knelt beside them and bathed their faces and bodies with wine. They were sinners in need of repentance and divine mercy. Saint Melania, a wealthy Roman matron, freed her 8,000 slaves at once. Claver showed them that they were loved even more than they were abused, and that divine love must not be outraged by evil ways, by cruelty and lust. He was no egotistic eccentric who delighted in doing daring things for the sake of being unique! Meanwhile young Clavers desire was growing more and more forceful within him to go to the Indies where God was calling him. Thousands of times, during his forty years in the world of pain, he would take off that cloak and use it. Showing them Christ fastened to the cross, as he is depicted on the baptismal font on which streams of blood flow down from his wounds, we led them in reciting an act of contrition in their own language. Founding Superior of Saint Benedict Center, N.H.: Brother Francis, M.I.C.M. When this fact was safely determined, the Christians were separated from the pagans, and they received a Rosary and a medal to be put around their necks. For two days the people marched past the sacred remains with great solemnity and emotion, kissing his hands and feet; first the nobles, and finally the Negroes. The saint suddenly startled everyone by crying out her name: Agustina, Agustina, while sprinkling her with holy water. A St. Peter Claver Catholic Church member burns incense as a part of the church's first Senor de Los Milagros (Lord of Miracles) celebration procession in Tyler on streets near the church. St Peter Claver worked for decades to help enslaved people. Four years is a long time to be laid up. They discovered a God, a gentle Savior, and a theology of history, that could help make sense of their enslavement. On September sixth, two Negroes carried Father Claver to the chapel where he received Holy Communion with the devotion of a seraph. Overcome with nausea, the admiring priest had to leave the room, but despite his own weakness, he never ceased praising the heroic virtue of Claver, publicizing it even in Rome. His outstanding charity led him to fulfill everyone's spiritual needs and combat their moral misery. The diocese is located in Navsarni Kendra, Savantvadi, India, Maharashtra. The Church has always had a difficult time influencing the worlds of business and commerce. Cartagena needed a saint. The masters complained that he wasted the slaves time with his preaching, praying and hymn-singing. And the eighty-year-old saint of Palma instantly recognized the sanctity he saw in the twenty-five year old Peter Claver. Learn interesting facts and tidbits about the beloved St. Patrick. T he second miracle took place in St. Louis. 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. He prayed, slept, walked, labored, and preached in them for forty long years. A handsome supply of which was hung upon the back if his confessional; for others that the saint felt had enough of a penance to bear (the crippled, the lame, the aged, the destitute), he had more pleasant gifts: Rosary beads, or fruits, sweets, and similar delicacies. 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. He broke every rule in the book. He was beatified 16 July, 1850, Pius IX, and canonized 15 January, 1888, by Leo XIII. I love Thee very much, and he would have them repeat it many times over, I love Thee much, very, very much, while striking their breasts, his face and theirs bathed in tears. In the early centuries of Christianity, slavery gradually began to be phased out. 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. An angel of mercy to the sick, Father Claver was also a seraph of consolation to prisoners. 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. Her condition, thank God, suddenly improved and both she and the baby are well. In some cases, their terror was so grave that the victims hearts literally froze and they died from shock. Sometimes two men chained together would be from warring tribes, and horrifying scenes of rage would take place. Outside the harbor in the Bay of Cartagena, the Spaniards were at one time holding on ships some six hundred English and Dutch Privateers whom they had captured on one of their Granadan island colonies which suffered a temporary takeover at the pirates hands. In the past, when he came home from such missions, he was usually so reduced physically that he looked like a walking skeleton. Church of Saint Peter Claver is located in West Hartford Connecticut Again he sent a formal letter asking his superiors to grant his request. So filthy did the cloak become that, in a days labor, it would have to be washed seven times. England, Spain, Portugal, Holland and France fought over what they found here while they each set up shop here in hostile territory, in instances, owned and operated by the original peoples they found here. Clavers reputation for enduring the unendurable prompted many a curious admire to accompany him on his visitations to see for themselves if what they had heard of him was true. 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.". St. Peter Claver was canonized in 1888. Thousands pressed forward to touch their Rosaries, linens, and medals to his hands and to his feet, which were left uncovered. And if his love for her was great, her was no less for him. To keep from fainting, he applied periodically a handkerchief dipped in wine to his sweaty face. Little is known of his early years. Though the Inquisition had also been in operation since 1610 in Cartagena, that office dealt in the main with crimes against religion, such as blasphemy, witchcraft (and their was and still is plenty of it in the West Indies), and the preaching of heresy. It was their privilege to be the slaves of the slave of slaves. 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. And suffering is to sin what medicine is to sickness. The methods this apostle used to restore life or health was often quite out of the ordinary. After Easter Peter Claver was back on the road instructing newly-arrived slaves and tending the sick. Father Peter Claver was overjoyed and dragged himself from his bed to greet his successor. As for his meals, even these meager refreshments were half devoured by the ungrateful wretch before the saint ever received them. 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. He became almost entirely inactive, but would sometimes hear confessions, especially of his dear friend Doa Isabella de Urbina who had always generously supported his work with her money. By this time the slave trade had been established in the Americas for nearly a hundred years and the port of Cartagena was one of its principal centers, being conveniently situated as a clearing house for auctions and sales. Shortly after midnight, on the feast of Our Ladys Nativity September 8th, his face, which had the aspect of one ravished in God, suddenly took on the features of a man utterly exhausted. We read in the gospels how the hem of our Lords garment cured, and by the same Divine Power, so did the very shadow of Saint Peter and the handkerchiefs of Saint Paul. One Turkish galley slave had resisted Clavers pleadings for over twenty years when the saint heard that a sickness had put him at deaths door. We laid aside our cloaks, therefore, and brought from a warehouse whatever was handy to build a platform. Again at two oclock he would return after a scanty meal and a meditation. Her body began to move. Wahlberg who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, is a practicing Catholic. Our patron, Peter Claver was a Spaniard, from Spain. Claver took to the country missions in the spring. The Sisters of St Peter Claver were founded by Blessed Theresa Ledchowska. He was an early Pioneer for Human Rites and showed. Pius IX, who beatified Peter Claver, branded the slave trade supreme villainy. The most vociferous of all was Pope Paul III. The U.S. bishops have invited Catholics to observe the day with fasting and prayer for an end to racism in the United States. An epidemic had spread again, and the saint began to feel its bite in his own flesh as he returned from a mission to his slaves in one of the outlying villages. | Prioress: Sister Marie Thrse, M.I.C.M. The Apostle of Cartagena worse a serious face. No time was too early for these faithful Cartagenians to unburden their souls to God. The Gospel of this first Sunday of Lent presents to us Jesus in the desert, tempted by the devil (cf. Heartfelt Condolences to Fatima Sister Fr. Furthermore, he did not lose sight of his converts when they left the ships, but followed them to the plantations to which they were sent, encouraged them to live as Christians, and prevailed on their masters to treat them humanely. The saint made it so simple for their confused and despairing consciences that not one of Cartagenas condemned criminals went to his execution unrepentant. It reminded me of the miracles attributed to Peter Claver. City magistrates ordered that he should be buried at public expense and with great pomp. Silently, with watery eyes, they picked up the saint and laid him to rest.Months later, a certain Mohammedan whom Father Claver had spent years trying to convert, walked into the Jesuit Church where the body of the saint lay in repose, and falling down before the Saints remains, shed tears of sorrow and promised to enter the true Church. His king was Philip II, and his spiritual Father in Rome was Pope Sixtus V. Misfortune hit him hard and early. Two orders, the Trinitarians and the Order of Mercy had this for their object. Peter Claver Catholic Church was born. Mary Theresa has worked a miracle for me." Upon hearing the commotion, the doctors ran to the ward and were dumbfounded. Yes, I suppose it was. 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. 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 ceremony was initiated with a rosary then a mass blessing of the. They turned their eyes to Africa to find that labor force. Some cases involved actual diabolic manifestations. It would be a tangent too labor-some for the continuity of this article to demonstrate at any length how forcefully and wisely the Catholic Church has handled the slavery problem throughout its history. The Negroes were especially affected; Peter Claver had been a real father to them. The future apostle of the slaves was the youngest in his family, so from the start he knew only how to serve. They thought that their blood was going to be used to dye the ships sails, and that their fat to grease her keel. Justice delivers his body to death, thereby to save his soul I have sinned, O my God My greatest grief is that I cannot repent sufficiently to compensate for my offenses against Thee. Every criminal, who had to go to his execution in Clavers Cartagena, went with the holy man of God right by his side. The Catholic Church venerates St. Peter Claver as the patron saint of African Americans and slaves, but Claver himself was neither. But then, America did not give up on the idea. They were packed together like sardines in a can, left to wallow in their own sweat, vomit, urine and human waste. Father Claver defied civil authorities who treated the Africans like animals: he went into the pens with . The entire house, having been informed of Father Clavers condition, came silently into the infirmary. The doctors recognized such a miracle and it was later authenticated by the Vatican in 1887, leading to Peter Claver's canonization in 1888. Today one can visit the room and window from which Father Claver peered out to be ready once ships arrived with captured and bartered blacks. And he delighted in good music. . The two men conversed at length, discussing the Catholic position as opposed to the Protestant. Due to the importance of this apostolate, Rome was willing to allow an exception to its canon forbidding clerics to own slaves. Out from these massive bulwarks of stone peered formidable artillery batteries and sentinel boxes, where watchmen scoured the horizon for an enemy sail. 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. He joined the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), and after his novitiate in Taragona was sent to the college of . Community Redevelopment Agencies have proven historically to provide distressed communities with a better economy through improved infrastructure . So also, must Gods servant be ut iumentum factus sum apud te.. Much as men are willing to forgive those, who wrong them, yet they' never . Everything to that time was old. I love Thee very much. Funk, Motown, Pop, Pop Soul, Quiet Storm, Soul, Southern Soul, R&B, Brill Building Pop, Rhythm And Blues, and Classic Soul. These kinds of individuals stood out from among the rest. Standing out as one of the more stupendous of Father Clavers miracles was the affair of the raising of the slave-girl Agustina, who served one of the good padres closest friends, Captain de Villalabos. Take a virtual tour to learn the history of this beautiful church. 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. According to reports Medina faces up to 35 years to life in prison for the murder. For the infirm he would come out of his stuffy box and often set them on his knees so as to accommodate them more easily, and after he was through, he would invite them all for a little breakfast. He and his wife Rhea (married in 2009) have four children: Ella, 19, Michael, 16, Brendan, 14, and Grace, 13. PO Box 6016. From whom does the devil want to divide Jesus? Junior Knights and Junior Daughters of KPC, Inc. But four long years would be needed before the consuming affliction would liberate him forever. St. Peter Claver. Here in the solitude of his confinement he suffered not only physically but also mentally. In 1853, Ignatius Strecker, a native of Germany, arrived in St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife and nine children. Even Mohammedans thought him fascinating, and many found it difficult to resist his entreaties for very long. These slave needed a cause for joy real joy and now! The Mass was part of a nationwide Day of Fasting and Prayer called for by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to acknowledge the sin of racism and to seek racial justice and healing. The college was run by the Society of Jesus- a new order founded by Ignatius of Loyola, who had honored Catalonia as the land of his conversion and labors. Suddenly the bearded padre would appear like an avenging angel, whip in hand (the same one he applied unmercifully to himself), and he descended on the wicked party with wrath, terrifying the guilty, and carrying off the devils spoils- i.e., drums or other instruments. Settling the New World and stealing from that New World brought with it the necessity of cheap labor, human labor . 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.. Author and Publisher - Catholic Online But after a week or two, hunger, sickness and disease numbed these kinds of outbursts. Stay up to date with the latest news, information, and special offers. Carrying two baskets of oranges, lemons, sweet biscuits, and I know not what else, we hurried toward them. Many of these poor unfortunates had been torn from their families in their prime of life. You can add to these the faded and worn cloak of Saint Peter Claver. Falling down before him, the veteran apostle kissed his feet. He was canonized at the same time as his friend St. Alphonsus Rodriguez in 1888 and he was declared by Pope Leo XIII patron of all missionary enterprises among blacks in whatever part of the world. All it needed was this seed from the wise master, Alonso. Oddly enough, these men whom Claver used as interpreters were his own slaves. As a dressing for the wounds of the whipping, he wore over them a soothing full-length hairshirt. Then they would learn the Our Father and the Hail Mary. Prizes were given to those who learned their prayers first. To prevent excessive dampness, someone had thought of building up a mound with a mixture of tiles and broken pieces of brick. 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. When sailors sailed into town the vices and disorder of the port and other disturbances increased. 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. Another miracle is about a fierce and rebellious slave named Amete, who resisted the saint's efforts to baptize him for more than 30 years. There were thirteen prisons in Cartagena. In his humility, in order to avoid the attention of the crowd, who would have swarmed about him had they seen him, he had his lame body strapped to a horse in the hopes that the animal would take him swiftly to the leprosarium through the back roads. In truth, it was a blessed form of servitude for those eighteen Negroes. The girls' school, called the St. Joseph's School For Girls (or the Spanish Indian Residential School for Girls), relocated to a 400-acre piece of land next to the St. Peter Claver School in Spanish, Ontario, in 1913; construction of St. Joseph's would not be completed until the following year, however.. Benedict XIV lashed out against it in 1741; Pius VII did the same in 1815. Fr. One might say that Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez has at that moment planted his own soul into Saint Peter Claver. 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. They came from villages where agriculture, farming and nature were at the center of life, where spirits dwelt in each thing around them, and where isolation was unthinkable since the self was always in relationship to others. He first asked them for their babies so that he might poor the saving water of Baptism upon them; then, seeking out the dying, he spoke to them by way of interpreters, and obtaining their consent, he baptized them too. Many a despairing man who had been confined to bed due to the physical consequences of an irregular life would find the supernatural peace through the encouragement and charity of good Father Peter. Claver was not always well received. Meanwhile, a man of importance ran through the streets, totally oblivious to human respect, and knocked forcefully at a door. Blacks were forced here, captured, bartered, and purchased from territories of the west coast of Africa what is today the Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Ghana, Benin and other places deeper in the continent stretching as far as the Congo. Their bodies were hastily thrown overboard to the sharks. Built between 1580 and 1654, the structure features an imposing stone facade, yet the interior glows with the rich colors filtered through its stained glass windows. In the summer of 1654, Father Diego Ramirez-Farina arrived in Cartagena from Spain with a commission from the king to work among the Negroes. In all he had eighteen. Claver couldnt remove the cross but he could make it sweet. The women, in particular, would shed abundant tears while embracing each other in great joy. The other priests would then carry him to his cell where, when he revived, the saint would refresh himself with a good scourging and some mental prayer. After all, it is a lot easier to love those who are clean than to love those who are not. Many of the missionaries were tortured and flayed alive especially among the Iroquois nation. In the history of God's Saints we read of heroic souls giving themselves as slaves in exchange for Christian captives. The holy man had no time to lose. After this we began an elementary instruction about baptism, that is, the wonderful effects of the sacrament on body and soul. 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. Nor was the saint known to into ecstasies at the altar. One by one, the religious and the Negroes clasped his feet, which were giving off such a heavenly fragrance, and bathed them with their kisses. Health For the Christian women he had dresses. He is the patron saint of Colombia, slaves, missionary work to Africans, and seafarers. Across the sea a ship arose on the horizon. And did not Jesus assure us, of such is the kingdom of God? Others were captured at random especially able bodied males and females deemed suitable for labor and breeding. Another saint whom he had known at school in Majorca, Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez, revealed his road in life to him. Thou gavest life, I pray no act of mine may take away or mar that gift of Thine (continues below). There were government officials, businessmen, merchants, seamen, miners, plantation owners, engineers and middlemen whose lives profited from this nefarious trade; among them Jews and Christians of various denominational traditions who rationalized this sordid enterprise. 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