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Baptism was received with such an emotion of joy as to move the hardest heart. If you have already donated, we sincerely thank you. It didnt come quickly. Leader: God, + come to my assistance. How many more miracles have taken place in connection with this church over the past 150 years, no one knows. The dignified old man appeared, wearing a long white beard, and Claver, having been apprised of the customary signs of English protocol, saluted the prelate with much respect and offered a toast to his health. Enter your email address to receive notifications by email every time we post something to the site. To cover the feverish and naked, to wash wounds, to shroud women penitents and to place upon it the abandoned sick, until he could procure them a mat for a bed. Cartagena was hit with five major epidemics during Clavers apostleship (1615-1654). In despair over not being able to speak to the sick men, the frustrated priest called after her loudly, Magdalena, Magdalena, in the Name of God come back; these are or brothers, redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ. At these words the woman sighed a prayer for help and courageously returned. 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. Finally, the happy convert related a vision he had had of the deceased Dutchman, whom the good Father had just buried, with great ceremony. Because it is an excellent building material, miners started excavating the mountain some 1,000 years ago. St Peter Claver College. 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. People were patriotic, but color of a mans skin was just that and nothing more. Though there was a time when his fellow Jesuits criticized Father Claver for his childlike methods of catechetics, nevertheless, for the childlike slaves, the basic-ness of Claver usually hit its mark fast. Though Father Sandoval, the founder of the slave apostolate, had only just initiated his new assistant in the care of the blacks, the veteran missioner was shortly thereafter recalled to Peru; consequently, he had to bestow the entire apostolate upon Father Claver. Whereas many of the Negroes used to kneel before the saint and kiss his hand if they chanced to meet him on the street, this savage resented his job and took out his hatefulness on his unwanted charge. 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. The slightest incentive from the slave hunters, whether it be tinkling bells or sparkling gems, would move tribal chief to wage petty wars for the sole purpose of selling their prisoners for such unworthy profit. There were thirteen prisons in Cartagena. The U.S. bishops have invited Catholics to observe the day with fasting and prayer for an end to racism in the United States. 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. Their bodies were hastily thrown overboard to the sharks. He had a steady confidence that God would care for them and, not his least worry were the slave owners whom he did not deem beyond the mercy of God. On one occasion, as out future apostle passed by his spiritual master with a fellow student on their way to recreation, Brother Alphonsus stopped them and said, Remember, the Three Persons of the Most Blessed Trinity go with you. Instantly the holy porter was seized by a heavenly rapture and he stood senseless as if in trance. Coming quickly upstairs, Brother Nicolas found Claver on the floor, having passed from this life to the next. Here he would find them some kind of shelter and nurse them, bringing them food and medicine. A rich merchant once called him to his house to give the sacraments to a dying Negro who was one mass of ulcers. 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. Take a virtual tour to learn the history of this beautiful church. 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. The beauty of the world; that thus I may with joy and courtesy go on my way. Doa Isabella and her sister remained faithful to him, and his old helper, Brother Nicholas Gonzalez, visited him when he could. He found employment in a local soap factory. Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver of North America At the Service of the Missionary Church AN INTERNATIONAL CONGREGATION OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS Our Spirituality The most divine of divine things is to cooperate in the salvation of souls. In Claver, however, was found a representation of the other side of the Spanish conscience, namely, an abiding affection for humanity especially Gods dark children whom he heard early on were ill-treated with this despicable trade. 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. He immediately made inquiry. Into this fire we tossed aromatics. It behooves me, Claver once wrote, always to imitate the example of the ass. So also, must Gods servant be ut iumentum factus sum apud te.. Shelter those, dear Lord, who bear my company from the evils of fire and all calamity.Teach me to use my car for others need; Nor miss through love of undue speed. Our Saints upbringing carries nothing too spectacular about it. After Easter Peter Claver was back on the road instructing newly-arrived slaves and tending the sick. They turned their eyes to Africa to find that labor force. Arriving at the shack where the men lay writing in the mud, the gentle doctor lifted them up one by one onto some dry mats. This extreme wealth passing in and out of the port was what attracted the avaricious entrepreneurs to settle there. RIVERVIEW QLD 4303 Postal Address. No Caesar, proudly entering the gates of Rome, could have looked more glorious than this exuberant saint, as he triumphantly marched with his Negroes down the main avenue of Cartagena. He was found dead in his home on Saturday afternoon, February 18. Holding up the crucifix on a staff for all to see, he let them behold what their sins had done to their Creator. A witness testified to the Office of Inquisition in Cartagena that, on one occasion, he had seen several Negroes floating naked around the ceiling in a house at night after dabbling in this witchcraft. Pope Leo XIII sent a golden coffin for his remains along with a pipe organ which sits in the choir loft of the Church to this day. The saint spent every day in the confessional from sunrise until twelve noon. And it was here, as a boy, that Peter Claver had climbed the penitential road of the pilgrims many times with his parents and family, only to do it now years later as a black robed beggar in imitation of his father, Ignatius. Your Catholic Voice Foundation has been granted a recognition of tax exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. 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. ST. PETER CLAVER CATHOLIC CHURCH Rev. Another excess that occupied his zeal and caused him great anxiety was certain pagan festivals and rites that weak Christians sometimes slipped back into. 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. Personal and occupational duties stood in the way of the man being then reconciled but he took ill and was removed to St. Sebastians hospital where before he died he was received into the Church by Father Claver. Into these yards Peter Claver plunged with medicines and food, bread, brandy, lemons, tobacco to distribute among them, some of whom were too frightened, others too ill to accept them. He never complains in any circumstances, for he is only an ass. History: The son of a Catalonian farmer, was born at Verdu, in 1581. Only three times in those four years of his last tribulation did he leave the monastery. . The man of God scourged himself three times nightly: before prayer, before retiring, and after rising. 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. As for his meals, even these meager refreshments were half devoured by the ungrateful wretch before the saint ever received them. Before pouring the cleansing water, he would ask them three times in a loud voice if they wanted to become Christians. Nothing in Clavers scholastic training, outside of a sincere heart, prepared him for what he would meet on the docks, in the holes of ships and in the slave markets. All it needed was this seed from the wise master, Alonso. Having inquired as to the cause, he was informed that Father Diego Farigna had arrived with the Spanish fleet, and that this was the priest who had received the commission from the King to continue the work of baptizing the Negroes. 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. Thousands pressed forward to touch their Rosaries, linens, and medals to his hands and to his feet, which were left uncovered. 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.. Many of these poor unfortunates had been torn from their families in their prime of life. The holy man seemed to touch everyone. 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. A number of other Englishmen followed his example. 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. Taking his beloved pupil aside, the humble teacher of saints (many great missionaries were guided by Rodriguez) spoke with authority: I cannot express to you the sorrow that I feel at seeing that God is unknown to the greater part of the world. If it were not for this work I should be a nuisance to myself and to everybody else. Answering his critics why he did not take certain precautions moving among sick people, Claver remarked: If being a saint consists in having no taste and having a strong stomach, I admit that I may be one.. Facilitating this trafficking in human cargo was the reasoning that blacks were in most if not all instances culturally and essentially inferior. When he slept, or tried to sleep, he removed only the neck rope and the crown of thorns. 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. As a dressing for the wounds of the whipping, he wore over them a soothing full-length hairshirt. On September sixth, two Negroes carried Father Claver to the chapel where he received Holy Communion with the devotion of a seraph. Perhaps their dissatisfaction with themselves was the underlying cause of their cruelty, much like a man who has been a failure takes out his resentment on a dog. This last mentioned convict was executed by strangulation. One of them appeared even more splendid than the rest. The likeness of St. Peter Claver is seen in stained glass at St. Mary's Cathedral in Peoria, Ill. Canonized in 1888, St. Peter Claver is now considered the patron saint of human. September 9 marked the Feast of St. Peter Claver, a Jesuit priest who ministered to African slaves in Colombia in the 17th century. 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. In that way we covered a space to which we at last transferred the sick, by forcing a passage through bands of slaves. These unscrupulous adventurers were among those forces of her majestys seamen who were also in the habit of stealing Spanish galleons, laden with Negroes, and transporting them to Englands North American colonies. The fatigue of this Lenten routine was aggravated unmercifully by the excruciating heat, the bite of mosquitoes, and the stinging itch of a full ankle length hairshirt that the holy confessor wore beneath his cassock next to his body. 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. We laid aside our cloaks, therefore, and brought from a warehouse whatever was handy to build a platform. On Ash Wednesday, Mark Wahlberg gave an interview to the Today Show about why faith is important to him, and working with the Catholic prayer app Hallow ( https://hallow.com/ ). 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. 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. 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. 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. There were times when he even raised the dead with it. It was an era of expansion. Sinners were afraid to walk the streets lest they should encounter the saint in the market place, for they knew he had the gift of reading souls. 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. In 1853 Ignatius Strecker had brought his family from Germany to the United States, and in 1861 he was working at St. Louis in a soap factory. It is estimated that in forty years Peter Claver instructed and baptized over 300,000 slaves. Even in sickness he would not ease up. 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. In fact, her body was being prepared for the funeral shroud. The first principle in his instructions to his helpers was centered in the corporal works of mercy. She also happened to be from Biafara and Claver needed her as a translator. St. Peter Claver was canonized in 1888 by Leo XIII, along with Alphonsus Rodriguez. 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. Claver died fifty years later on the feastday of the Black Virgin, which is also her birthday, September 8th. In the autumn Claver would go among the traders and seamen, who landed at Cartagena in great numbers off supply ships and well as slave ships. After a wearisome voyage he landed with his companions at Cartagena what is today the coast of modern day Colombia, South America. FOR THE FEAST DAY OF ST. PETER CLAVER. In the history of God's Saints we read of heroic souls giving themselves as slaves in exchange for Christian captives. The clergy were practically powerless before the powers-that-be as well as by their timidity and inaction. Until death.. They thought that their blood was going to be used to dye the ships sails, and that their fat to grease her keel. To me it is a miracle ! PETER CLAVER, PRIEST. In a short while, when these poor creatures were fattened up a little and washed, they would be auctioned off in the market place and sometimes end up far away. What sort of a man must I be, that I cannot do a little good without causing so much confusion? Claver would ask. And he delighted in good music. The vicar general of the diocese officiated at the funeral. 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. When he was only thirteen, his mother Ana died, and within the same month his twenty-year-old brother followed her to the grave. Many of the narratives both of the heroism and extraordinary wonders worked by Peter Claver concern his nursing of sick and diseased slaves, in circumstances often no one else, black or white, could face. Conflict sapped the strength of the European landscape and gave rise to a spirit hungering for new things, particularly, in the minds of the young. At three oclock in the morning he entered the church. St. Peter Claver's work came to an end with his death on September 8, 1654. 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. So filthy did the cloak become that, in a days labor, it would have to be washed seven times. In 1537, when the enslaving of the Indians was still more common than that of the blacks, this Pontiff thundered out in indignation. 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. My grateful thanks to Blessed Mary . He informed his father of his intention to join the Society. The ship would then be loaded up with the extracted gold and silver and other new-world products destined for Spain. . Website powered by MemberLeap. To the masters and slave owners Claver appealed for physical and spiritual justice, for their own sakes no less than for that of their slaves. Yes, I suppose it was. Whole parts of their bodies were eaten away by the dreadful disease; some had lost limbs, others had loose parts of their faces; some had scarcely any resemblance to a human exterior remaining, and the odor emanating from their many sores was the worst the apostle anywhere encountered. It was not until the advent of Christianity that slavery received a deathblow. A contemporary description of our saints character at that time was given by a fellow student in a letter to a superior at the latters request years later: Modest, gentle, and friendly, he edified us all, trying to please and help everyone. He was sent to study at the University of Barcelona. #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. Miracles (2) Montessori education (2) New Year (2) O . And for the longest time no one but God and the saints of heaven knew what the holy man was going through. 8.00 am - 4.00 pm Telephone (07) 3810 5900 Fax (07) 3282 3190 Email. 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. 1615, he was ordained a priest of God at Cartagenas Cathedral, at the side altar at the right side of the sanctuary that remains to this day. Claver was not always well received. PO Box 6016. Ad Rem A Fortnightly Email Message from the Prior, Saint David is the patron of Wales, where thousands and thousands of noble Catholics have lived and where many saints have been given to God., He was a Frenchman and the son of a nobleman. Enslaved people were brought over from Africa to work the sugar fields. He and his wife Rhea (married in 2009) have four children: Ella, 19, Michael, 16, Brendan, 14, and Grace, 13. 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. In addition to celebrating the Eucharist, our various ministries include Black Catholic Concerns, Women's Fellowship in English and . His religious profession was written with his own hand and signed thus, Peter Claver, slave of the slaves, forever. That forever meant thirty more years of a grueling monotony, the accomplishments of which would have sufficed to fulfill the lives of ten apostles. Your gift is tax-deductible as allowed by law. Colonization and exploration was, in all parts, viewed an evil specter descended on pristine lands. The beauty that attracted this apostle was one far superior to that of pretty faces and balanced proportions; it was his God and Savior, Jesus Christ, whom he saw in the most abandoned and the most loathsome. This sacred and historical shrine is the site of the only Vatican authenticated miracle in a Midwestern church. Before parting from his beloved teacher, Claver was given a unique privilege, a privilege not granted to any other student, of keeping the spiritual notes that Brother Alphonsus had personally written for him. It reminded me of the miracles attributed to Peter Claver. The Catholic Church venerates St. Peter Claver as the patron saint of African Americans and slaves, but Claver himself was neither. Spain brought a cease to trafficking in slaves in 1850. As a student, he was noted for his intelligence . They all had souls to save. As his faithful friend and companion, Brother Nicholas, helped him into a bed, the saint moaned, This sickness is the reward for my sins. Many of these castaways seemed to be miraculously sustained while waiting for Father Claver to find them, and baptize or confess them before they should die. So many who perish, not because they seek their own loss, but because no effort is made to save them. He obtained his first degrees at the University of Barcelona. An abominable situation indeed, from the black side, no less than from the white. To protect themselves, the citys inhabitants, with the added muscle of the slaves, built huge sixty-foot-thick walls to repel such attacks. At that moment. Bot the saint knew it not. Again the gruesome routine began, washing their infections, kissing their sores, bandaging their wounds, even sweeping up their hovels. This, of course, he had never done, except conditionally in cases of doubt, but he was nevertheless forbidden to baptize in the future. Claver was 73 years old. Geography would be forever altered. The young Jesuit petitioned his superiors to be sent to the missions of the West. After receiving Baptism from John in the Jordan, Jesus was called by the Father my beloved Son (Mt 3:17), and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in the form of a dove (cf. This collection, which dates from 1904 to 2009, with bulk dates of 1980 to 1994, consists of records and materials evidencing the workings of the church and its community, primarily . The diocese is located in Navsarni Kendra, Savantvadi, India, Maharashtra. Funk, Motown, Pop, Pop Soul, Quiet Storm, Soul, Southern Soul, R&B, Brill Building Pop, Rhythm And Blues, and Classic Soul. 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. St. Peter Claver (1580-1654) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary to Latin America. At the age of twenty he entered the Jesuit novitiate at Tarragona. At night in death row, instead of cries of despair, was often heard the crack of a penitential scourge which the saint had left behind saying, Suffer now, my brother, and make the best of the brief time remaining you.. Unlike many, even among some of the clergy, Claver did not consider that ignorance of their African languages absolved him from the obligation of instructing them in the truths of religion and morals and bringing to their degraded spirits the consolation of the words of Jesus. 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. Strangely enough, when the man saw the saint he called out to him, Oh my Father! Settling the New World and stealing from that New World brought with it the necessity of cheap labor, human labor . In all this he found more opportunity to suffer. Peter Claver was born in 1581 to a devout farming family in the Catalonia region of Spain. If ever there was an ugly stain upon the birth of a nation, it was the stigma of the slave trade in the foundation of the Americas. In fact, with them it was a real point of honor not to give in to Clavers exhortations. At the age of twenty he entered the Jesuit novitiate at Tarragona. (Fakhri B. Maluf, Ph.D.), RIP Prior: Brother Andr Marie, M.I.C.M. At fourteen, he left home to pursue his vocation at the college in Barcelona. 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. He cured the sick almost routinely and there were times when he even raised the dead. St. Peter Claver. Never had any of them been loved as this man had loved them. 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. And to save many souls.. Pleased by the courtesy of the Catholic priest, the archdeacon asked him in Latin for a private interview. There never was slavery more inhuman, more murderous and more complete over the souls as well as the bodies of its victims than what we have seen in our century in those countries swallowed up by the Communists. The young student at Barcelona decided to do more than just to benefit from the Jesuits education. The crude picture graphically portrayed the Crucified Christ with His Precious Blood pouring from His Wounds into a basin. He performed no important negotiations, established or reformed no religious order, made no brilliant changes of places or circumstances. 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