Then we sat, or rather knelt beside them and bathed their faces and bodies with wine. 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. Nor was the saint known to into ecstasies at the altar. In college, Claver met Alphonsus Rodriguez who was a porter at the college and that meeting was to set the direction of Peter Clavers life thereafter. Claver plunged himself, body and soul, into relieving the blacks in their dreadful circumstance. Episode 361: Whether God Exists? the Five Proofs, The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Outside the Church there is no Salvation (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus), Saint Benedict Center in Richmond, New Hampshire, Brother Francis, M.I.C.M. 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. The driver of the vehicle and a teacher were also killed in the incident around 3 pm. One he always made use of was a very amateurish, one might even respectfully say ugly, representation of the Judgment. The future apostle of the slaves was the youngest in his family, so from the start he knew only how to serve. 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. 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. 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. All they could muster was to protest and devote themselves to individual ministrations, physical, spiritual and material, to the tens of thousands of suffering human beings brought to these shores. The two saints parted company in 1608. 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. He is known as the "Apostle of the West Indies" and the "Slave to the Slaves." Peter Claver was born in Verdu, Catalonia, on July 26, 1580, of prosperous parents. Her body began to move. The saint entered, but he was at once so overwhelmed with the loathsome stench and the repellent sight that he recoiled and took a step back. The son of a Catalonian farmer, was born at Verdu, in 1581; he died on the 8th of September, 1654. Moved by the spirit of these encouragements and a missionary fervor, Peter Claver approached his provincial superior, offering himself for the West Indies and was told that his vocation would be decided in due course --by his superiors. 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. Moreover, the weather was hot, the stench so unbearable in the stuffy hut, and the sight so repulsive that the Negress took flight. Many of the missionaries were tortured and flayed alive especially among the Iroquois nation. It came very slowly. 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?. 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. #Saint pf September 9 : St. Peter Claver a Miracle Worker and the Patron of #Racism, Slaves and #AfricanAmericans. He performed no important negotiations, established or reformed no religious order, made no brilliant changes of places or circumstances. Scarcely can there be found in the annals of hagiography a story of a saint more honored in his demise. 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. Ignatius Strecker came to America from Germany in 1853. 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. 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. 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. He loved to entertain. Fr. 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. We are a Special Conference of the St Vincent DePaul Society serving Central Florida. To Cartagena, flatteringly known as the Pearl of the Indies, all kinds of adventurers found their way. St. Peter Claver was canonized in 1888 by Leo XIII, along with Alphonsus Rodriguez. In that way we covered a space to which we at last transferred the sick, by forcing a passage through bands of slaves. 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. The man of God scourged himself three times nightly: before prayer, before retiring, and after rising. Claver means keeper of the keys. The holy brother of Montesion kept the keys of the college, for he served as the porter. sriverview@bne.catholic.edu.au College Phone Numbers. It was Father Claver. Copyright 2022 Catholic Online. As for his meals, even these meager refreshments were half devoured by the ungrateful wretch before the saint ever received them. When he viewed their deplorable condition and saw the fear in their faces, he broke down and cried. St Peter is known as the "Apostle to the Slaves." Tellingly, she named it after the Jesuit who tried to alleviate the suffering of African slaves transported to South America in the early seventeenth century, is estimated to have personally baptised around 300,000 people, and became the patron saint of slaves and seafarers. After all, it is a lot easier to love those who are clean than to love those who are not. So repulsive was his sickness that no one dares to go near him, lest they contract the infection. This time he stumbled into the Jesuit residence with a body that could scarcely be recognized. It reached its climax in a pilgrimage to the beloved Spanish shrine of the Black Virgin of Montserrat. Then, using our own cloaks, for they had nothing of this sort, and to ask the owners for others would have been a waste of words, we provided for them a smoke treatment, by which they seemed to recover their warmth and the breath of life. Day 1 - St. Peter Claver Novena. A priest was baptizing Negroes with the Blood. . And he did win thousands of them despite all kinds of obstacles. And in fact, convinced as they were that they had been brought here to be eaten, any other language would have proved utterly useless. Spain of the 17th century proceeded with an unscrupulous imperialism, taking to the treacherous seas to pursue conquest in land, gold, silver, jewels, spices, sugar and tobacco. Occasionally Father Claver would be carried to a hospital, to minister to a dying prisoner, or other sick person, and once when a cargo ship arrived of slaves from a tribe which had not been seen in Cartagena for thirty years his old strength suddenly returned; he was taken around till he found an interpreter who spoke their tongue, then baptized all the children, and gave brief instructions to the adults. Even in sickness he would not ease up. Food and water were given to each, and many had to be hand fed, so weak and sickly had they become. The slave ship is here, he crescendos, then the hook must be baited.. (Fakhri B. Maluf, Ph.D.), RIP Prior: Brother Andr Marie, M.I.C.M. Masters were willingly freeing their slaves. 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. His bedroom and the room where he died are also preserved to this day in the same place. Sitting on a rock, he would put his cloak over their shoulders, if it was cold, and hear their confessions. Be at my window and direct me through when the vision blurs From out of the blue. To me it is a miracle ! The masters complained that he wasted the slaves time with his preaching, praying and hymn-singing. Due to the tremendous respect everyone has for the extraordinary Jesuit, these warnings always produced the desired fruit. 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. 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. He was born in 1580 into a prosperous farming family in the Spanish village of Verdu, Catalua. St Peter Claver worked for decades to help enslaved people. To all he brought the comforts of the sacramental religion. Due to the importance of this apostolate, Rome was willing to allow an exception to its canon forbidding clerics to own slaves. Claver was a man who knew pain and knew its value. There were thirteen prisons in Cartagena. He was unable to take a step. The slave of the slaves believed in simplicity. 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. St. Peter Claver was canonized in 1888 by Pope Leo . 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. The rumor of his approaching death spread around the city like wildfire, everyone suddenly remembered the saintly priest again, and numbers came to kiss his hands before it was too late; his room was stripped of everything that could be carried off as relics. To prevent excessive dampness, someone had thought of building up a mound with a mixture of tiles and broken pieces of brick. Carry me safely to my destined place, like you carried Christ in your close embrace. Near the confessional he also had holy books with pictures of the Passion, which he insisted that all the people ponder before they confessed. After a difficult voyage of some months, the ships landed at the New Granadan port of Cartagena, just below Panama, in the Gulf of Darien. The very day that the Holy Virgin, to whom he was so tenderly devoted, entered time, the slave of Mary and of the Negroes entered eternity. In America it was spawned by an inordinate love for money and its material benefits. Others were captured at random especially able bodied males and females deemed suitable for labor and breeding. I will send more when I can. 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 also shared a video on his Instagram, which is below the Today Show interview: WATCH the Inspiring Today Show Interview below: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mark Wahlberg (@markwahlberg), Auxiliary Bishop David OConnell of Los Angeles, California, was killed on February 18th. Two or three times a week the saint would go succor these poor specimens of what were once healthy men and women. The Story of Saint Peter Claver, Apostle of Slaves A disciple of Saint Alphonse Rodriguez, Peter Claver became a slave of the slaves in order to take them to heaven. In the history of God's Saints we read of heroic souls giving themselves as slaves in exchange for Christian captives. It was an era of expansion. Traveling in these areas Father Claver habitually refused as much as possible the hospitality of the planters and owners and instead lodged in the quarters of the slaves checking on conditions and speaking to their owners and masters, advocating for the slaves. 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. There they languished for two months. 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. He came spoke to him with such an authority and efficacy that the obstinate Turk yielded and begged for baptism. The young Jesuit petitioned his superiors to be sent to the missions of the West. He made a court appearance, was charged, and has allegedly confessed to the crime. Wahlberg who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, is a practicing Catholic. v. 16). The final emergence was on behalf of the lepers at Saint Lazarus. He was an early Pioneer for Human Rites and showed. 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. He became the prophet and miracle worker of New Granada, the oracle of Cartagena, and all were convinced that often God would not have spared the city save for him. He became a bishop and instituted a feast in honor of Our Ladys Immaculate Conception., He was the forty-eighth Pope. When he is evilly spoken of, he is dumb. The saint would never complain. Alphonsus is accused of firing-up in Claver the idea of going to the help of unfortunates who were without spiritual ministrations in the colonies of the New World. All these poor creatures had, was a fire-and-brimstone Jesuit, and he wanted to save them from an eternal misery. The ceremony was initiated with a rosary then a mass blessing of the. Experiences like this were fairly common at the college with Brother Rodriguez, for his ecstasies were frequent and often public. About a third of them died on the forced journey from Africa and many more would lose their lives in the subsequent years . Heartfelt thanks for your prayers for our daughter during her recent serious illness. 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. They were packed together like sardines in a can, left to wallow in their own sweat, vomit, urine and human waste. However, it also drew pirates. At the age of twenty he entered the Jesuit novitiate at Tarragona. In Clavers time wars between and among European monarchs raged, one bloody feud after another, they seemed endless. Enclosed is a small donation in thanksgiving. Claver knew that the blacks were never going to see in their lifetime much, if any, material happiness on earth, certainly not the pie-in-the-sky utopias of Karl Marx and his disciple, Martin Luther King, Jr. Once arrived he went to the Jesuit house of Santa Fe to complete his theology studies and was employed as well at the Jesuit residence as sacristan, porter, infirmarian and cook and was dispatched for his tertianship to the new house of the Jesuits at Tunja. 10 Old Ipswich Road. He, his wife, and daughter settled in St. Joseph's Parish in St. Louis, Missouri. The school continued to be operated by the Daughters of the Heart of Mary following the . He was a shining light in a dark time. 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. 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. In fact, her body was being prepared for the funeral shroud. Episode 363: Expanding on Saint Thomas Fifth Way. 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.. Pleased by the courtesy of the Catholic priest, the archdeacon asked him in Latin for a private interview. 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. Cajeten Pereira Bishop House In total six people were killed including the priest and three nuns killed in road accident at Sumer. Famous actor and producer, Mark Wahlberg, age 51, went on NBC's the Today Show to discuss Lent. Claver felt as if the Holy Ghost had descended on them as He had at Pentecost. He fought tirelessly against the heretics who denied the Divine Maternity of Mary and the abiding humanity of Jesus., Albany Diocese bans Latin Masses following new guidance from the Vatican, New report examines the state of priestly vocations in US, Hungary and the Holy See: Alone in Europe in Calling for Peace in Ukraine, Professor Stanisaw Grygiel, Longtime Friend of John Paul II, Dies at 89, Episode 365: Drudgery as a Means to Sanctity. 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. The devil always wants to create division, and it is what he sets out to do by tempting Jesus. The saint made it so simple for their confused and despairing consciences that not one of Cartagenas condemned criminals went to his execution unrepentant. Meanwhile young Clavers desire was growing more and more forceful within him to go to the Indies where God was calling him. Hearing of their capture, Father Claver requested and received permission to visit the fleet and offer holy Mass for the Spanish soldiers. 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. Peter Claver reached stature as a saint of God having watched closely a leader in this work, Father Alfonso de Sandoval, a great Jesuit missionary who spent forty years in the service of the slaves, and after working under him, Peter Claver, having reached a spiritual pinnacle in his own self-understanding, declared himself the slave of the Negroes forever. Although, by nature shy and lacking to degree self confidence, Claver threw himself into the work and pursued it with enthusiasm, method and organization. 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. 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. Clavers problem was that he was sensitive. 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. In the afternoon hours he would hear only the confessions of the Negresses, and then, in the evening, beginning at six oclock, he would devote himself strictly to the men. Strecker's healing was among the miracles attributed to Claver that led to his 1888 canonization by Pope Leo XIII. The family Rosary was an essential part of the typical sixteenth century pious Catalonian rearing in which Ana and Pedro Claver, our saints parents schooled their four children. No sin, he assured them, was too great for Jesus to forgive in confession. All he did for the ancestors aligned him with the God of love. Doa Isabella and her sister remained faithful to him, and his old helper, Brother Nicholas Gonzalez, visited him when he could. So severe were the lashings that the neighbors shuddered when they heard the sound of them in the still of the night air. September 9 marked the Feast of St. Peter Claver, a Jesuit priest who ministered to African slaves in Colombia in the 17th century. 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. Someone told the saint about their plight. 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. And for the longest time no one but God and the saints of heaven knew what the holy man was going through. He avoided food, rest and recreation and other pleasures popularly considered, lest such should divert him from his spiritual path. The Gospel of this first Sunday of Lent presents to us Jesus in the desert, tempted by the devil (cf. After three years, the time had come for Rodriguez to speak more clearly to Claver in regard to his vocation, as the Divine Master had done with His Apostles after His three years with them. Cartagena was hit with five major epidemics during Clavers apostleship (1615-1654). Saint of the Day for Wednesday, March 1st, 2023, First Station: Jesus is condemned to death, 5 prayers you should say this Lenten Season News. 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. He was no egotistic eccentric who delighted in doing daring things for the sake of being unique! The missionaries expenses were paid for by the Catholic King, Philip III, who had requested from all his provinces at least one priest to be sent to the recently established kingdom of New Granada (Colombia) across the ocean. Peter Claver was seventy-one years old. He lived from 1581 to 1654. His hands and clothing were instantly covered with infectious filth. Baptism was received with such an emotion of joy as to move the hardest heart. St. Peter Claver. We have before us a most extraordinary saint- unquestionably the most extraordinary saint who ever walked this earth. Instantly his conscience accused him, and ashamed of his cowardice, he retired to a corner of the room and delivered himself a brutal scourging, confessing all the while his fault in not loving enough one who was redeemed by the Precious Blood of Christ. In teaching his pupils religion he loved to use pictures. Claver died fifty years later on the feastday of the Black Virgin, which is also her birthday, September 8th. He became the prophet and miracle worker of New Granada, the oracle of Cartagena, and all were convinced that often God would not have spared the city save for him. If a baby had the misfortune to be taken with its mother, or born during the voyage, it usually died of malnutrition. At long last, the pilgrim came home to his city, Cartagena. He broke every rule in the book. The clergy were practically powerless before the powers-that-be as well as by their timidity and inaction. These slave needed a cause for joy real joy and now! One day close to his very last, as he lay in his cell, the saint heard a great deal of rejoicing in the residence. Miracles of St. Peter Claver Ignatius Strecker came to America from Germany in 1853. A civil rights violation? At that moment. 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. . Yes, Peter Claver intended to do just that, knowing as he did, that consciences speak more easily in time of sorrow than of joy. You know the story the conditions under which they were conveyed across the Atlantic were as foul and inhuman as to be beyond belief. And suffering is to sin what medicine is to sickness. PO Box 6016. Coming quickly upstairs, Brother Nicolas found Claver on the floor, having passed from this life to the next. Absentee Line: (07) 3810 5950 When he slept, or tried to sleep, he removed only the neck rope and the crown of thorns. During Lent and on the major feat days, he would go about the city inviting all to a thorough house cleaning. Peter Claver, SJ (Spanish: Pedro Claver y Corber; Catalan: Pere Claver i Corber; 26 June 1580 - 8 September 1654) was a Spanish Jesuit priest and missionary born in Verd (Catalonia, Spain) who, due to his life and work, became the patron saint of slaves, the Republic of Colombia, and ministry to African Americans.. During the 40 years of his ministry in the New Kingdom of Granada, it . All it needed was this seed from the wise master, Alonso. At the end of the Masses, a group of distinguished men approached the casket. This steady concourse lasted until nightfall when the Fathers insisted on sending the people away and closing the doors. In a second, a priest opened it. Each one had to be taken apart and drilled, time and again, even in so simple a matter as making the sign of the cross or in learning the prayer of love and repentance that each had to know: Claver taught them to pray these words: Jesus Christ, Son of God, thou shalt be my Father and my Mother and all my good. Finally, when they appeared sufficiently prepared, we declared to them the mysteries of the Trinity, the Incarnation and the Passion. 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. 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. One of them appeared even more splendid than the rest. During the time that the blacks spent in the sheds, they were penned so closely that they had to sleep almost upon one another and, thereby, freely handed on their diseases nonetheless, Claver was seen caring for the bodies of the sick and the souls of all. He became the apostle of Cartagena as well as of the Africans and in so huge a work was aided by God with those gifts that particularly pertain to apostles, of miracles, of prophecy and of reading hearts. February 17th 1937 was a day upon which a miracle happened. Claver made use of pictures, in accordance with standard catechetical pedagogy of the time, showing our Lord suffering on the cross for them; above all did he try to instill in them some degree of self respect, to give them at least some idea that as redeemed human beings they had dignity and worth, even if as slaves they were outcast and despised. 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