The gruesome list goes on and on: coarse horsehair cords tied around his toes, arms, and legs; sharp pointed crosses, strapped by more coarse rope around his chest and back; a sharp studded girdle about his lions and thighs. (Fakhri B. Maluf, Ph.D.), RIP. Claver felt as if the Holy Ghost had descended on them as He had at Pentecost. 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. 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. They were packed together like sardines in a can, left to wallow in their own sweat, vomit, urine and human waste. The medal had the Holy Name of Jesus on one side and of Mary on the other. As a dressing for the wounds of the whipping, he wore over them a soothing full-length hairshirt. Come to me, my Father! Claver, like the Good Shepherd, ran to embrace him, and, for a time, tears choked any words either tried to utter. Many of the lepers could not speak at all; they could only look at him, if they had eye, and touch the tears on his cheeks while they moaned some sort of guttural, Thank you.. City magistrates ordered that he should be buried at public expense and with great pomp. Of course, such lacks of concern meant a higher mortality rate, and consequently, lower profits; so, though such appalling cruelty did occur, it was not routine. After a wearisome voyage he landed with his companions at Cartagena what is today the coast of modern day Colombia, South America. Lord, for love of you St. Peter Claver became the faithful servant of slaves. Colonization and exploration was, in all parts, viewed an evil specter descended on pristine lands. Aiding and abetting slavery was the inability of the European mind-set to process and receive and deem worthy the dignity of black skin. But since his parents had dedicated Peter at birth to the ecclesiastical state, this tragedy only strengthened the youths conviction that he must not live for this world. It's a little awkward to ask, but we need your help. Mary Theresa has worked a miracle for me." Upon hearing the commotion, the doctors ran to the ward and were dumbfounded. Whenever the saintly doorkeeper heard someone knock, his face would light up and he would utter this holy ejaculation, Lord, I shall open the door to You for love of You. And, with an enthusiasm that could be no greater if it were Jesus Himself waiting, he would keep repeating as his lean and bent body strode down the corridor, I go, Lord, I go, Lord.. The school continued to be operated by the Daughters of the Heart of Mary following the . Saint Christopher's Protection Prayer Dear Saint Christopher, protect me today in all my travels along the road's way. Alphonsus intuited the capabilities of the young scholastic and saw in him a man fit for new, arduous and neglected work up to now unattended to, namely working among blacks in bondage. 8.00 am - 4.00 pm Telephone (07) 3810 5900 Fax (07) 3282 3190 Email. Of these we had two wallets full, and we used them all up on this occasion. I love Thee very much. It could be a supply boat with some long-awaited news from back home in Spain, or it might be a slave ship, or even an enemy man-of-war. 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. Scarcely can there be found in the annals of hagiography a story of a saint more honored in his demise. When the Jesuits finally succeeded in establishing a proper place for the body in the church, the Augustinians came and took over the exhausting job of guarding the casket. 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. 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. They turned their eyes to Africa to find that labor force. Pius IX, who beatified Peter Claver, branded the slave trade supreme villainy. The most vociferous of all was Pope Paul III. Peter Claver Catholic Church was born. 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. 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. Community Redevelopment Agencies have proven historically to provide distressed communities with a better economy through improved infrastructure . All God wanted was their love in return. The faith was often perceived as a conduit of this evil. So filthy did the cloak become that, in a days labor, it would have to be washed seven times. The saint made it so simple for their confused and despairing consciences that not one of Cartagenas condemned criminals went to his execution unrepentant. One day, after offering a funeral Mass for one of these converts, he decided to visit the obstinate patient. Much as he loved to visit the hospital of Saint Sebastian, the leprosarium of Saint Lazarus occupied the tenderest place in Clavers magnanimous heart. Any unauthorized use, without prior written consent of Catholic Online is strictly forbidden and prohibited. Seddity women complained that after the Africans had been to Mass it was impossible to enter the church for their bodily odor left behind the slaves, understandably, did not have exactly perfumed waters to bathe in daily. The two men conversed at length, discussing the Catholic position as opposed to the Protestant. 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. This was his city. 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. I was able to track down the . Things would never be the same. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free; there is neither male nor female; For you are all one in Christ Jesus. Gal 3:27-28. Claver died fifty years later on the feastday of the Black Virgin, which is also her birthday, September 8th. 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. Strangely enough, when the man saw the saint he called out to him, Oh my Father! With a precision-made-second-nature-through-routine, the good father gathered together his little army with their provisions and set out to battle. In all he had eighteen. The diocese is located in Navsarni Kendra, Savantvadi, India, Maharashtra. That; they had been brought across the ocean to be freed from their slavery to the devil, and to learn the way to everlasting happiness. All of them died on the spot. 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. He joined the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), and after his novitiate in Taragona was sent to the college of . Six abandoned pagans from Biafara were lying in a shed, suffering from violent dysentery. Most of the major European nations dabbled in the slave trade, with Portugal paving the way, and England soon monopolizing it. Jesuits were already ministering in North America among the Great Lakes native peoples on up through Canada. 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. 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. Many of these poor unfortunates had been torn from their families in their prime of life. Whether the saint could bilocate or not isnt known, but whenever the slaves got out of line in the city, the watchful shepherd inevitably showed up to put the fear of God back into them. 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. When he is despised and neglected, he is still dumb. In 1602 he entered the Society of Jesus. Today, we are a trilingual community with Masses in English, Spanish and French/Creole. One might call him, though I dont like the term, an ordinary boy- quite above the ordinary intellectually- a little below average personality-wise, though very likable and modest. It was Father Claver. The most illustrious of his many conversions was that of an English prelate and his Protestant confreres. In truth, it was a blessed form of servitude for those eighteen Negroes. Food and water were given to each, and many had to be hand fed, so weak and sickly had they become. He was beatified 16 July, 1850, by Pius IX, and canonized 15 January, 1888, by Leo XIII. 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. Robert J. Miller in his 2007 Book, Both Prayed to the Same God, researched that: The Africans came from a vast region of Western Africa stretching inland for two to three hundred miles. As the affable Jesuit ate and drank nd conversed with the delighted crew, the Englishmen, somewhat won over already by his manners, so contrary to what they had heard of Jesuits, requested that the priest meet their venerable archdeacon, who happened to have been captured along with them. 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. I will send more when I can. Such demonic phenomena were not uncommon among the uncivilized races. #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. Pius II (whose Patron was a slave) did so in 1462, calling slavery a great crime. Urban VIII (1539) strongly opposed it. There was nothing artificial about Peter Claver. The methods this apostle used to restore life or health was often quite out of the ordinary. Nor would he give them back until their owners promised, after confession, to make alms to the leper hospital. 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. Leader: Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: All: as it was in the beginning, is now . Yet he seemed destined to drink the chalice of Christs Passion to the bitter end. He was born in 1580 in a little town of Spain called Verdu in the diocese of Solfona and he was baptized Peter. He never bothered philosophizing about the evils of a system, while planting class hatred and bitterness, as the Socialists of our day do. The Reformed churchmen looked on in a kind of curious awe as they watched the majesty of a ceremony they had heard so reviled. 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. The Thirty Years War and the wars of religion was the backdrop for this chapter of history within which Claver lived. For this extraordinary Jesuit, whose life we are about to study, the arrival of a slave ship was like the homecoming of a long lost son. But when he spoke to them he spoke exactly of what they would expect a priest to speak about: God, heaven and hell. Health Their work resulted in a unique tunnel system that is well over 80 km . Miracles (2) Montessori education (2) New Year (2) O . FOR THE FEAST DAY OF ST. PETER CLAVER. The St. Peter Claver Roman Catholic Church records house the institutional records of the St. Peter Claver Roman Catholic Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. That melancholic countenance was first stamped upon him when he was introduced to the real world of human misery. All the six occupants were from Bongaigaon diocese and were killed after a truck rammed into it at Sumer, Ri Bhoi, on Sunday evening. 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. SEE ALSO: #BreakingNews California Catholic Bishop David O'Connell Shot and Killed at Age 69 - RIP to the Peacemaker Bishop - https://www.catholicnewsworld.com/2023/02/breakingnews-california-bishop-david.html Bishop OConnell, was a native of Ireland who spent most of his 43 years as a priest serving in LA. The holy priest would bend over, and with his own arms, he would lift up the sickliest. Its a filthy voyageas well as a laborious [one]., Sir Dalby Thomascommander of the Royal Africa Company at Cape Coast, the Gold Coast, c. 1700Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870,Touchstone Books, 1997. Your gift is tax-deductible as allowed by law. In this prison there were detained slaves, who re-lived the dark pagan rituals in the hot forest nights, side by side with certain clerics who would not keep their vow of chastity. Leader: God, + come to my assistance. The devil, instead, does the opposite: he enters the scene to divide Jesus from the Father and to distra. One thing the Negroes had a craving for was dancing. Catholic Online is a Project of Your Catholic Voice Foundation, a Not-for-Profit Corporation. Agustinus Seran, SVD - Pastor 1203 North Nebraska Ave., Tampa, FL 33602 Office Hours: Monday - Thursday, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Mass Times Weekend Masses: Saturday Vigil - 4:00 pm Sunday Morning - 10:00 am *Haitian Creole Mass - 1:00 pm Daily Masses Wednesday - 9:00 am Friday - 8:00 am Confession Schedule In teaching his pupils religion he loved to use pictures. ". In spite of the condemnation of this great crime by Pope Paul III and by other lesser authorities, this supreme villainy, as slave trading was designated by later Pope Pius IX, continued to flourish, all that some of the owners did in response to the voice of the Church was to have their slaves baptized. During his life he baptized and instructed in the Faith more than 300,000 negroes. It is estimated that in forty years Peter Claver instructed and baptized over 300,000 slaves. The science of the school of Peter Claver was the art of dealing with pain, and of knowing its worth. In fact, the Catholic Church, for so doing, granted them spiritual benefits. Suddenly the girl who had been dead sat up and vomited a large quantity of blood. At the end of the Masses, a group of distinguished men approached the casket. He would then wash them with his own hands and dress their wounds with medicines that he previously begged for in the market place. 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. 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. The whites were also affected. The healing occurred at St. Joseph's parish in. 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. Cartagena was a central stopping point for this inhuman traffic. . When he is starved, he is dumb. 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. Doa Isabella and her sister remained faithful to him, and his old helper, Brother Nicholas Gonzalez, visited him when he could. 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. There they languished for two months. Stay up to date with the latest news, information, and special offers. For fourteen years the man of God served one such helpless old man, visiting him three or four times a week and bringing him food and consolation, until at last he passed away in the blessed arms of his benefactor. 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. The driver of the vehicle and a teacher were also killed in the incident around 3 pm. As a student, he was noted for his intelligence . In the evening, the saint was torn with a violent fever that, together with the intense vehemence of his aspiring love, cast him into a motionless state, in which he lay unconscious, his face betraying in its peaceful composer the transport of love he was undergoing. 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. While he preached, he suffered. Junior Knights and Junior Daughters of KPC, Inc. If you have already donated, we sincerely thank you. To feel the bite of chains clasped upon them and to be shoved into the dark belly of a floating monster, not knowing what fate awaited them. As he was being carried back to his room he said to one of the brothers, I am going to die; what do you desire of me in the next life? That you recommend this city and house to God, answered the brother. Then we divided the sick into two groups: one group my companion approached with an interpreter, while I addressed the other group. This time he stumbled into the Jesuit residence with a body that could scarcely be recognized. At fourteen, he left home to pursue his vocation at the college in Barcelona. The Protestant Reformation fomented division, polemics and outright murder. 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. In America it was spawned by an inordinate love for money and its material benefits. Hearing of their capture, Father Claver requested and received permission to visit the fleet and offer holy Mass for the Spanish soldiers. The final emergence was on behalf of the lepers at Saint Lazarus. St. Peter Claver's work came to an end with his death on September 8, 1654. Having finished this, his foremost priority, he turned his attention to the others. Our patron, Peter Claver was a Spaniard, from Spain. No time was too early for these faithful Cartagenians to unburden their souls to God. I am sorry for having sinned against thee. And he did win thousands of them despite all kinds of obstacles. Out from these massive bulwarks of stone peered formidable artillery batteries and sentinel boxes, where watchmen scoured the horizon for an enemy sail. The holy man seemed to touch everyone. 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. 14-141). Top SEO sites provided "Novena to god the father" keyword . When sailors sailed into town the vices and disorder of the port and other disturbances increased. Wahlberg who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, is a practicing Catholic. Amen. Three . Saint Peter Claver Church was established in 1931 to serve the African American community of greater Montclair, New Jersey. Be at my window and direct me through when the vision blurs From out of the blue. 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. Another saint whom he had known at school in Majorca, Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez, revealed his road in life to him. 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. 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. Answered Prayers The magnificent Main Altar is the result of a pledge made by grateful parishioners who made a promise to St. Joseph. He was sent to study at the University of Barcelona. To protect themselves, the citys inhabitants, with the added muscle of the slaves, built huge sixty-foot-thick walls to repel such attacks. 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. Dedicated to a South American human rights pioneer whose remains still rest there today, Sanctuary of Saint Peter Claver exudes a sense of tranquility. On September sixth, two Negroes carried Father Claver to the chapel where he received Holy Communion with the devotion of a seraph. 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. 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. Claver would never recover from this illness. These marks of distinction were a legitimate incentive to the others to embrace their benefactors religion, which oddly enough was also the religion of their oppressors.With the sick, Father Claver had no care for precautionary measures of hygiene for himself. Claver couldnt remove the cross but he could make it sweet. 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. The walls of Cartagena silently echoed the solemn news as it was piously whispered in every corner, The Saint is dying! The fever of discovery proved, unfortunately, the beginning of the extermination of the native peoples. The two earlier coffins are preserved as relics in the Jesuit residence at 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. 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. 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. Arrange a private group tour by clicking the link below or by calling (314) 231-9407. Those who were baptized looked beautiful and happy, while those who were not, looked ugly and were about to be gobbled up by hideous monsters from hell. If the slaves complained of ill treatment, the indignant saint spared no words in admonishing the guilty owners to correct their faults. 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 fact, two Popes, Pius I and Callistus I, had at one time been slaves. Then they would learn the Our Father and the Hail Mary. Prizes were given to those who learned their prayers first. One of the brothers who was ordered to take care of the saint during one of his illnesses, when he saw that he still tormented himself so, exclaimed, Ah Father, how long is the ass to be thus harnessed?. No sin, he assured them, was too great for Jesus to forgive in confession. Printable Catholic Saints PDFs Claver was less successful in his efforts to make converts among the Muslims who came to Cartagena to do business, but he managed to bring a number of Moors and Turks to the faith, though one held out for thirty years before succumbing, and even then a vision of our Lady was required to convince him. 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. So Claver gave it none- except what was absolutely necessary to sustain life. Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. But what made this Jesuit in Cartagena a saint was not only his detachment from the world and attachment to Christ, but along with that, an astounding ability to reduce potency to act. In fact, with them it was a real point of honor not to give in to Clavers exhortations. Saint September 9 : St. Peter Claver a Miracle Worker and the Patron of Racism, Slaves and African Americans September 08, 2022 The son of a Catalonian farmer, was born at Verdu, in 1581; he died on the 8th of September, 1654. At that moment. After these preliminaries, there followed a most pathetic scene. He and his wife Rhea (married in 2009) have four children: Ella, 19, Michael, 16, Brendan, 14, and Grace, 13. 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. Saint Peter Claver,Priest and ReligiousMemorialSeptember 9th. In all, Sandoval had baptized over thirty thousand slaves; his successor would baptize over three hundred thousand.His face aglow with a supernatural joy, Father Peter would board the slave ship while it was anchored in the harbor, and with the help of his interpreters he would greet the suffering newcomers. With its ideal natural harbor, Cartagena became a stopping point for ships, or galleons, as they were called, on their way to and from the homeland. In those days, there was hardly such a thing as racial prejudice. Often the skin on the backs and shoulders of those too weak to help themselves would be worn to the very bone from the constant motion of the waves and rubbing of their flesh on the damp planks.Apparently these slave hustlers were the very dregs of Christian Europe. His hands and clothing were instantly covered with infectious filth. Nor can the Africans themselves escape the blame. He obtained his first degrees at the University of Barcelona. 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. Church of Saint Peter Claver is located in West Hartford Connecticut To keep from fainting, he applied periodically a handkerchief dipped in wine to his sweaty face. He was no egotistic eccentric who delighted in doing daring things for the sake of being unique! Here he would find them some kind of shelter and nurse them, bringing them food and medicine. 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. It was a face that betrayed the worn-out condition of his entire body. Absentee Line: (07) 3810 5950 Meanwhile, a man of importance ran through the streets, totally oblivious to human respect, and knocked forcefully at a door. He is the patron saint of Colombia, slaves, missionary work to Africans, and seafarers. St Peter Claver College. It was their privilege to be the slaves of the slave of slaves. 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