His bedroom and the room where he died are also preserved to this day in the same place. Some rights reserved. However, it also drew pirates. The Superior of the college arranged for the two of them to spend fifteen minutes a day conversing about spiritual things. 8.00 am - 4.00 pm Telephone (07) 3810 5900 Fax (07) 3282 3190 Email. Claver died fifty years later on the feastday of the Black Virgin, which is also her birthday, September 8th. There were fugitives of all sorts, despairing failures of fortune, pirates, bigamists who had abandoned wife and home, money-hungry merchants, retired soldiers, heretics, Mohammedans, all varieties of Europeans, Jews, Greeks, and of course, native Indians, mestizos, mulattos, and last and saddest of all, the black slaves. 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. black labor. True! So, from Jesuit priestly ranks arose this dreamer, the young man Peter Claver, of upper middle class bearing, born in the city of Verdu in Catalonia about the year 1581. The novice was extremely devoted to the Blessed Mother and particularly fond of this shrine. Extra ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the Church there is no salvation). 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. And did not Jesus assure us, of such is the kingdom of God? . Slavery is not a European import to a perfectly virtuous non-European world. Oddly enough, these men whom Claver used as interpreters were his own slaves. His apostolate was over, and dark thoughts tried to upset his peace he was useless, a burden to others, and deservedly was cast aside by God. St. Peter Claver was canonized in 1888 by Pope Leo . From whom does the devil want to divide Jesus? Both these hospitals Claver visited each week, waiting on the patients in their material needs and bringing hardened sinners to penitence. St. Peter Claver. A sign of new things over the horizon was registered in the coined term The New World. St. Peter Claver Parish in Tyler hosted the second-annual procession ceremony for the Lord of Miracles on Tuesday night. 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. Suddenly the girl who had been dead sat up and vomited a large quantity of blood. It was this very notebook the dying apostle clasped to his breast on his deathbed, only releasing it for the benefit of novices at the Jesuit Novitiate in Tunga in the mountains of Colombia. One thing the Negroes had a craving for was dancing. He would never let it go beyond a half-hour because he felt that a lengthy Mass in the tropical heat would stifle devotion rather than kindle it. If the slaves complained of ill treatment, the indignant saint spared no words in admonishing the guilty owners to correct their faults. A civil rights violation? The Catholic Church enjoyed an uneasy peace throughout Europe in the 1600s. 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. The Sisters of St Peter Claver were founded by Blessed Theresa Ledchowska. Only some fifty years before, another Jesuit, Francis Xavier, had set out on a similar mission to the East. These kinds of individuals stood out from among the rest. Meanwhile, a man of importance ran through the streets, totally oblivious to human respect, and knocked forcefully at a door. Learn interesting facts and tidbits about the beloved St. Patrick. Miracles of St. Peter Claver Ignatius Strecker came to America from Germany in 1853. That seems a lot, considering that the city numbered only about twelve thousand inhabitants before 1650. Heartfelt Condolences to Fatima Sister Fr. Home - Knights of Peter Claver Spreading FAITH, HOPE, and LOVE through Friendship, Unity, and Christian Charity Our Faith What you Need to Know Online Store Register Now! The St. Peter Claver Roman Catholic Church records house the institutional records of the St. Peter Claver Roman Catholic Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. But Claver was not deterred, not even when the ecclesiastical authorities lent too willing an ear to the complaints of his critics. 36 St Peter Claver by Shining Light Dolls published on 2019-09-08T23:42:20Z. The Saint is dying! Suddenly, the sad reality dawned on the multitude, who awakened as from a trance, and they all, black and white, rich and poor, made their way to the Jesuit house. He became a bishop and instituted a feast in honor of Our Ladys Immaculate Conception., He was the forty-eighth Pope. He also shares if he still wakes up in the middle of the night and why he moved with his family to Nevada. In truth, it was a blessed form of servitude for those eighteen Negroes. The Jesuits were delighted to receive their new novice, as he had already merited for himself distinctive recognition for exceptional scholastic achievements at Barcelona. Every major feastday he would get together the great city band of Cartagena, and off they would go to perform for the lepers. The piercing sunken eyes of the padre read instantly the news in the messengers excited face, Its a slave ship, Father! Suddenly the grave expression of the priest changed into joy His whole countenance beamed as if he had seen a vision. Wahlberg who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, is a practicing Catholic. He was as Arnold Lunn puts it, a divinitarian. The gift he gave the poor slaves was a gift infinitely more precious than sympathy, or even a miraculous cure (which he was quite often the instrument of). The animal took him swiftly all right when, for some strange reason (some witnesses felt the horse was temporarily bewitched), the gentle horse suddenly bolted, galloping wildly through the streets. Devil means divider. Amen. 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. Daily his loving eyes would have to wrest their gaze from the Spotless Host lest he should allow his devotion to get the better of him. Carry me safely to my destined place, like you carried Christ in your close embrace. 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. When he is starved, he is dumb. Three solemn funeral Masses were sung, one of which was under the auspices of the Negroes themselves and their choir; while three orators from different orders tried to outdo one another in extolling the virtues of the man who had so inflamed the city. And to save many souls.. Any unauthorized use, without prior written consent of Catholic Online is strictly forbidden and prohibited. Slavery is not the subject of this article; however, before going on, the reader should at least divest himself of any false notion liberals may have implanted in him that the system was localized in the Americas. He avoided food, rest and recreation and other pleasures popularly considered, lest such should divert him from his spiritual path. In the history of God's Saints we read of heroic souls giving themselves as slaves in exchange for Christian captives. It is estimated that in forty years Peter Claver instructed and baptized over 300,000 slaves. Some were so debased as to sell their own children for gain. One of them appeared even more splendid than the rest. For the rest of his life pain hardly left him and a trembling in his limbs whats medically titled today, a Parkinsons disease - made it impossible for him to celebrate Mass. Finally, when they appeared sufficiently prepared, we declared to them the mysteries of the Trinity, the Incarnation and the Passion. The son of a Catalonian farmer, was born at Verdu, in 1581; he died 8 September, 1654. #Saint pf September 9 : St. Peter Claver a Miracle Worker and the Patron of #Racism, Slaves and #AfricanAmericans. The whites were also affected. To care for the slaves he must totally subject his own flesh and subdue it. Holding up the crucifix on a staff for all to see, he let them behold what their sins had done to their Creator. Saint Peter Claver,Priest and ReligiousMemorialSeptember 9th. Guest: Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M. Out from these massive bulwarks of stone peered formidable artillery batteries and sentinel boxes, where watchmen scoured the horizon for an enemy sail. When he is evilly spoken of, he is dumb. The beauty of the world; that thus I may with joy and courtesy go on my way. The diocese is located in Navsarni Kendra, Savantvadi, India, Maharashtra. When we approached their quarters, we thought we were entering another Guinea. ST. PETER CLAVER CATHOLIC CHURCH Rev. Here he met Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez, the man who was to thoroughly inspire him and send him on his lifes mission. He drew them by his humility and his Christlikeness. Claver was not always well received. 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. And suffering is to sin what medicine is to sickness. And in particular, he applied himself by word and prayer to regain the abandoned priests to a meaningful and holy life. From 1198 to 1787 the former redeemed, from the Moors. Surely this man deserved some consideration, some appreciation for all he had done in Gods service. Coming quickly upstairs, Brother Nicolas found Claver on the floor, having passed from this life to the next. Though it must be said that more than a few of these wretches were won over by the example of Father Claver and unburdened their tormented consciences to him. Sometimes two men chained together would be from warring tribes, and horrifying scenes of rage would take place. Two orders, the Trinitarians and the Order of Mercy had this for their object. Father Claver was also in particular demand to minister to condemned criminals, and it is said that no one was executed at Cartagena during Clavers lifetime without Claver being present to console the man; under Clavers influence the most hardened and defiant would spend their last hours in prayer and sorrow for their sins. ); but the claim that he was its bishop is an anachronism. Visit the website Show place on Google Maps. The ceremony was initiated with a rosary then a mass blessing of the. Kind and patient to all, for some of his penitents he prescribed the remedy of hairshirts and scourges. There were times when he even raised the dead with it. It was here at this holy sanctuary, high on a mountain in Catalonia that the founder of the Society of Jesus signified his complete conversion, by laying his soldiers sword down at the feet of the famous Madonna. 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.". 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. Even in sickness he would not ease up. An angel of mercy to the sick, Father Claver was also a seraph of consolation to prisoners. Church law forbade a master to hold a slave who wanted to become a priest. 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. 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. Meanwhile young Clavers desire was growing more and more forceful within him to go to the Indies where God was calling him. Aiding and abetting slavery was the inability of the European mind-set to process and receive and deem worthy the dignity of black skin. Many of the poor Negroes, having exaggerated fears of their approaching fate, took their own lives in despair. Author and Publisher - Catholic Online Needless to say, only the brave called this fortified city home, but even their courage could not dispel the natural fear that hung heavily in the hot air behind the thick walls. Was Performed at the Shrine of St. Joseph in St. Louis, MO. We ask this through Our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. 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. The next time he left was to hear the confession of the holy laywoman, Dona Isabel who, sick and bedridden, was afraid that it might be her last opportunity to speak to the saint in this life. To Claver, the poorest of the poor were truly the least of His brethren and heirs to a kingdom not of this world. At long last, the pilgrim came home to his city, Cartagena. St. Peter Claver. Lima in Peru had five- Saint Rose, Saint Francis Solano, Saint Martin de Porres, Saint Turibius, and Saint John Massias. In 1610, he landed at Cartagena (modern Colombia), the principle slave market of the New World, where a thousand slaves were landed every month. to peoples judged, by the impoverished social consciousness of that time, substandard in their origin, purpose and development. The holy man seemed to touch everyone. The perfumed class had enough priests to care for them but the blacks had no one. 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. Baptism was received with such an emotion of joy as to move the hardest heart. They were especially amazed at the devoutness of the Catholic soldiers. Truer to his own biography, what might we learn from Claver . You know the story the conditions under which they were conveyed across the Atlantic were as foul and inhuman as to be beyond belief. 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. Cartagena was a central stopping point for this inhuman traffic. No he didnt ignore the needs of whites; he just didnt give them priority. Photo by Sid Hastings Sid Hastings A relic of St. Peter Claver in a. Facilitating this trafficking in human cargo was the reasoning that blacks were in most if not all instances culturally and essentially inferior. 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. 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. . Clasping his feet in their hands, they bade him farewell amid a profusion of sighs and tears. Most of the major European nations dabbled in the slave trade, with Portugal paving the way, and England soon monopolizing it. St. Peter Claver was canonized in 1888. 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. The Gospel of this first Sunday of Lent presents to us Jesus in the desert, tempted by the devil (cf. PETER CLAVER, PRIEST. Spain brought a cease to trafficking in slaves in 1850. 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. In those days, there was hardly such a thing as racial prejudice. At three oclock in the morning he entered the church. Her body began to move. Daring explorers had sailed west and conquered new territories for the crown. The slave ship, having been anchored in the harbor, suddenly had its hatch yanked open and the light of the sun flooded in upon the prisoners wretchedness. Much as he loved to visit the hospital of Saint Sebastian, the leprosarium of Saint Lazarus occupied the tenderest place in Clavers magnanimous heart. Episode 363: Expanding on Saint Thomas Fifth Way. It didnt come quickly. It's a little awkward to ask, but we need your help. The doctors recognized such a miracle and it was later authenticated by the Vatican in 1887, leading to Peter Claver's canonization in 1888. 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. And, in their simplicity, they would laugh and hug those whom they found to have the same new name as they, repeating it over and over again like children. The slave of the slaves believed in simplicity. 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. The convicts had common morning and evening prayer, litanies and the daily Rosary. Father Peter Claver was overjoyed and dragged himself from his bed to greet his successor. The LA Sheriffs department announced that OConnells death was being investigated as a homicide. 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. 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. Saint Christopher's Protection Prayer Dear Saint Christopher, protect me today in all my travels along the road's way. 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. All he did for the ancestors aligned him with the God of love. The Mohammedans, however, cost the saint much more effort to win to the true religion. Strecker's healing was among the miracles attributed to Claver that led to his 1888 canonization by Pope Leo XIII. 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. 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. Saint Melania, a wealthy Roman matron, freed her 8,000 slaves at once. And he delighted in good music. v. 16). 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. Enslaved people were brought over from Africa to work the sugar fields. To prevent excessive dampness, someone had thought of building up a mound with a mixture of tiles and broken pieces of brick. 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. 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. Somehow Claver managed to get out of bed and don a cassock, and the next minute his frail and bent figure, with cane in hand, shuffled up to his successor. As one writer puts it, Piety only offends when implies a censorious verdict on the impious, for it is preachiness, not preaching, that most people resent. Of course, at times Claver knew he had to be very direct, as he was on one occasion when he said to a man about to leave the city in the company of a loose-living woman, It bothers me to see you about to travel with the devil. The arrow struck fast and so tormented the sinners conscience that he returned that very night to the rectory, and in sobs unburdened his sinful life to the ears of the holy priest. Some of their fellow countryman insulted both the converts and the priests, but the good Fathers patience and obvious holiness soon won them. 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. 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. On this pilgrimage, something must have moved him very deeply as he knelt before the miraculous statue, for in later years, if anyone even mentioned the Virgin of Montserrat, he would be unable to withhold his tears, so overwhelming was his love for her. 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. Names like Francis Xavier, Francis Borgia, Robert Bellarmine, Alphonsus Rodriguez, Peter Canisius, Aloysius Gonzaga, John Francis Regis, and Andrew Bobola gave testimony to the good foundation laid by a wise father who was shortly to be canonized. He was later exhumed for purposes of the canonical examination and was placed in a cedar coffin and re-interred in the great upper church built to honor his remains. History: The son of a Catalonian farmer, was born at Verdu, in 1581. I am sorry for having offended Thee. A galleon would contain, besides new immigrants, badly needed supplies and medicines, and of course, news and mail. And though death should have come much sooner than it did for a man who had trodden on danger as one would on rose petals, it finally began to move on him mercilessly. 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. 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. Lifting his hands, they watered them with tears, crying out that they had lost their greatest friend and protector. 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. I never heard him complain. 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. And the saint prayed hard. The Negro nurse who was supposed to take care of him was a crude hard-hearted man who had no appreciation for what this great and burdensome invalid had done for his race. He, his wife, and daughter settled in St. Joseph's Parish in St. Louis, Missouri. But when he saw the condition of Africans in the stinking slave pens of Cartagena, Colombia, he became bold and outspoken. Mt 4:1-11). The joy in their eyes as they looked at us was something to see. What the good priest restored in these unloved and abused people was inestimable it was their sacred dignity, their divine royalty, as adopted brothers of Christ the King.Nor could Claver forget the Negroes one they were sent away from Cartagena. He felt it was too delicate a flavor for a religious. His fellow Jesuits, having been reduced to an extreme poverty, were so busy with their individual responsibilities that days would pass without anyone even visiting him. Apostolate 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.. Weeks would go by, before this floating mortuary would relinquish its infectious corpses to the ocean. Enclosed is a small donation in thanksgiving. The son of a Catalonian farmer, was born at Verdu, in 1581; he died on the 8th of September, 1654. Community Redevelopment Agencies have proven historically to provide distressed communities with a better economy through improved infrastructure . 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. St. Peter Claver Peter was born of a distinguished family in Catalonia, Spain in 1581. 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 ship would then be loaded up with the extracted gold and silver and other new-world products destined for Spain. The ways of God seem hard at times. | Prioress: Sister Marie Thrse, M.I.C.M. Things would never be the same. When he is despised and neglected, he is still dumb. 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. He did such things not once, not twice, as some saints have done, but nearly every day for forty long toilsome years.Claver took care of Negro slaves. St Peter Claver College. Cannot charity traverse seas already opened by cupidity?. As the saying goes, only love can afford to be severe. These slave needed a cause for joy real joy and now! He never came down from it. Returning from the pilgrimage, Peter took his first vows in the Society and was inspired to write the following prophetic act of oblation: I shall consider the great oblation assumed by one who has made the consecration of himself to God I must dedicate myself to the service of God until death, on the understanding that I am like a slave, wholly occupied in the service of his master. A priest was baptizing Negroes with the Blood. At the end of the Masses, a group of distinguished men approached the casket. Saint Alphonsus was by occupation what Claver was by name. So great was Clavers love for Tunga that he was prompted upon his deathbed to confer upon that monasterys novices his greatest treasure- the spiritual writings of good Brother Alonso- which he has guarded jealously though his arduous life. Six abandoned pagans from Biafara were lying in a shed, suffering from violent dysentery. The crude picture graphically portrayed the Crucified Christ with His Precious Blood pouring from His Wounds into a basin. He was born in 1580 in a little town of Spain called Verdu in the diocese of Solfona and he was baptized Peter. Sometimes a hasty unkind word or some latent jealousy was enough to change allies, friends, or even blood relatives into hateful enemies ready to do battle. It is a fact as marvelous as it was true, that while Father Claver labored in Cartagena, not one Moslem went to his grave without first embracing the Catholic Religion. Matters for him were complicated by an outbreak of an epidemic in the area which claimed as one of its first victims, Father Claver himself. The saint would never complain. Pius II (whose Patron was a slave) did so in 1462, calling slavery a great crime. Urban VIII (1539) strongly opposed it. He informed his father of his intention to join the Society. 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. Peter Claver was spiritually mailed to the Cross of Jesus in Cartagena. Their work resulted in a unique tunnel system that is well over 80 km . Though the other young missionaries who were chosen along with our saint received Holy Orders before they departed, Claver decided not to take upon himself the awesome privilege. He was beatified 16 July, 1850, Pius IX, and canonized 15 January, 1888, by Leo XIII. Yet he seemed destined to drink the chalice of Christs Passion to the bitter end. 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. New lands to the west crossing the Atlantic Ocean had been discovered two hundred years previous. He shortly afterwards heard the confession of Doa Isabella, and told her it was for the last time, and on September 6, after assisting at Mass and receiving holy communion, Claver said to his dear friend, Brother Nicholas Gonzalez, I am going to die. That same evening he was taken very ill and became comatose. Only death could drag hi away. He died in 1654. The final emergence was on behalf of the lepers at Saint Lazarus. He would also use pictures in his teaching, primarily images of the crucified Christ. He immediately made inquiry. The saint spent one more year in the Novitiate at Tunga, high in the mountains of Colombia. Most of the more difficult inmates were pirates or sailors who ended up their profligate careers afoul of the law in the golden city of the Indies, although the local element of Spaniards and slaves contributed a fair share to the hands of justice. 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