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! And then, worse than the slave owners, were the slave traders themselves, hardened speculators in human flesh, who mercilessly hunted down their merchandise, like animals, along the equatorial African coasts and islands that they might auction them off at a handsome profit across the sea. The other priests would then carry him to his cell where, when he revived, the saint would refresh himself with a good scourging and some mental prayer. 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 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. Interestingly enough, the vessel carrying Claver was named after his patron saint, the Prince of Apostles, San Pedro. Here in the solitude of his confinement he suffered not only physically but also mentally. This was his city. 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. Such demonic phenomena were not uncommon among the uncivilized races. For the Christian women he had dresses. The following prayer service is an adaptation of the Liturgy of the Hours, and can be prayed individually or with a group. All God wanted was their love in return. Leader: Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: All: as it was in the beginning, is now . For two months, the slaves endured a fate worse than that of animals- hanging onto a life that seemed not worth the effort to preserve it- half dead, half insane, and reeking in the filth of their dysentery, vomit, and running ulcerous wounds. Thank you. 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. His bedroom and the room where he died are also preserved to this day in the same place. And for the longest time no one but God and the saints of heaven knew what the holy man was going through. The ceremony was initiated with a rosary then a mass blessing of the. 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. When we approached their quarters, we thought we were entering another Guinea. Late in 1861, a sharp piece of iron bruised his chest, resulting in . One thing the Negroes had a craving for was dancing. Cartagena was hit with five major epidemics during Clavers apostleship (1615-1654). 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. The young Jesuit petitioned his superiors to be sent to the missions of the West. From whom does the devil want to divide Jesus? People were patriotic, but color of a mans skin was just that and nothing more. That seems a lot, considering that the city numbered only about twelve thousand inhabitants before 1650. With a precision-made-second-nature-through-routine, the good father gathered together his little army with their provisions and set out to battle. Which had not? 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. Peter Claver was seventy-one years old. A year later he was ordained. It officially closed in. I am sorry for having offended Thee. 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. The tortured body of Father Claver, which the saint never ceased to submit to the hairshirt and discipline, could barely contain the ghost. Sept. 9: ST. PETER CLAVER, PRIEST. 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. Some cases involved actual diabolic manifestations. Into this fire we tossed aromatics. Forts also lined the harbor. He lived from 1581 to 1654. 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. At the end of the Masses, a group of distinguished men approached the casket. Claver died fifty years later on the feastday of the Black Virgin, which is also her birthday, September 8th. The ways of God seem hard at times. 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. 2023 Knights of Peter Claver All of them died on the spot. 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. 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. The Negroes were especially affected; Peter Claver had been a real father to them. Peter Claver was a man with a mission. That is why Saint Peter Claver traveled such a lonely road. The son of a Catalonian farmer, was born at Verdu, in 1581; he died on the 8th of September, 1654. As one biographer put it, Like the Cid, even the dead corpse of Claver conquers the Moors.. During his life he baptized and instructed in the Faith more than 300,000 negroes. Christians were ambivalent about these sentiments. 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. After the Mass the saint happily accepted an invitation to dine with them- for he recognized in so doing a tremendous opportunity to save souls. The beauty of the world; that thus I may with joy and courtesy go on my way. Despite all Clavers exhorting, the archdeacon would only respond by requesting the prayers of the priest, and with many signs of mutual affection the two parted company. Again the gruesome routine began, washing their infections, kissing their sores, bandaging their wounds, even sweeping up their hovels. The girls' school, called the St. Joseph's School For Girls (or the Spanish Indian Residential School for Girls), relocated to a 400-acre piece of land next to the St. Peter Claver School in Spanish, Ontario, in 1913; construction of St. Joseph's would not be completed until the following year, however.. Once more, this time most likely to test his obedience, they denied it. 36 St Peter Claver by Shining Light Dolls published on 2019-09-08T23:42:20Z. mountelizabeth.com.sg. Cajeten Pereira Bishop House In total six people were killed including the priest and three nuns killed in road accident at Sumer. ST. PETER CLAVER CATHOLIC CHURCH Rev. If the slaves complained of ill treatment, the indignant saint spared no words in admonishing the guilty owners to correct their faults. So Claver gave it none- except what was absolutely necessary to sustain life. Today, we are a trilingual community with Masses in English, Spanish and French/Creole. 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. 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. Little is known of his early years. He stayed there, except to attend to the missions nearby, like Our Lady on Calvarys hill. To keep from fainting, he applied periodically a handkerchief dipped in wine to his sweaty face. To me it is a miracle ! In fact, he would refuse to allow the good Brother Nicholas to dress him when he offered to do so, but asked rather for his nurse. Like a mother, he would press their deformed frames to his, encouraging them to endure their purgatory here so that they might cross directly to heaven at death, for paradise was so close. Asare-Dankwah, 62, has denied the rape accusation. Most of the major European nations dabbled in the slave trade, with Portugal paving the way, and England soon monopolizing it. Bot the saint knew it not. The saints searches for the sick and the abandoned took him frequently to the beaches, where occasionally, some poor aged or hopelessly maimed Negro would be dumped off by a heartless master to die. He 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. Only death could drag hi away. 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. The Gospel of this first Sunday of Lent presents to us Jesus in the desert, tempted by the devil (cf. He made a court appearance, was charged, and has allegedly confessed to the crime. Another excess that occupied his zeal and caused him great anxiety was certain pagan festivals and rites that weak Christians sometimes slipped back into. Claver did all he could to provide for the observance of these laws, and every spring after Easter he would make a tour of those plantations nearer Cartagena in order to see how his Africans were fairing under their masters. During his life he baptized and instructed in the Faith more than 300,000 negroes. His feast is observed throughout the Americas and other places around the world on the 9th of September. The two saints parted company in 1608. 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. Some rights reserved. I love thee much. They then sent him to Barcelona for his theology studies and after two years were, at his further request, chosen to represent the province of Aragon at the mission of Spanish Jesuits being sent to New Granada. The gentle waves of the blue Caribbean sparkles in the sun as anxious eyes riveted on the distant vessel to read some clue as to its identity. Photo by Sid Hastings Sid Hastings A relic of St. Peter Claver in a. This miraculous healing led to the canonization of Peter Claver as a saint of the Catholic Church. This extreme wealth passing in and out of the port was what attracted the avaricious entrepreneurs to settle there. One poor prisoner, won to God by Father Claver, penned these pathetic words in his prayer book after receiving the death sentence: This book belongs to the happiest man in the world. St. Peter Claver had seven interpreters, one of whom spoke four African dialects. 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. As for his meals, even these meager refreshments were half devoured by the ungrateful wretch before the saint ever received them. He kept a strict account of each and every slave he baptized. Nor could he appreciate any human consolation now, as his soul had already begun to break the web that so finely separated him from the vision of his Desire. 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. 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. Doa Isabella and her sister remained faithful to him, and his old helper, Brother Nicholas Gonzalez, visited him when he could. Pius II (whose Patron was a slave) did so in 1462, calling slavery a great crime. Urban VIII (1539) strongly opposed it. SoundCloud Ep. The good governor also told the fathers that the city was going to defray the cost of the obsequies by which the people of Cartagena planned to honor their most distinguished citizen. But Claver was not deterred, not even when the ecclesiastical authorities lent too willing an ear to the complaints of his critics. All witnesses of the miracle agree that when the man of God arrived at his friends house, to cure the sick girl, he found the maiden quite cold and dead. To conclude the sessions he would hold aloft the crucifix and have the slaves join in together with the prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Thou art my Father. Jn 17:11). Permission was not at first granted and Claver was ordered instead to return to the college at Barcelona for more study in theology. Carry me safely to my destined place, like you carried Christ in your close embrace. Take a tour of the Shrine of St. Joseph in St. Louis.Learn More, Receive the sacrament of marriage at St. Joseph.Learn More, See opening hours and get directions.Learn More, 2023 Shrine of St. Joseph | 1220 North 11th Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63106 | info@shrineofstjoseph.org | (314) 231-9407. St. Peter Claver Church was established in the early 1900s, after Black parishioners experienced racism from white Catholics at a nearby church. And he did win thousands of them despite all kinds of obstacles. Wahlberg who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, is a practicing Catholic. Settling the New World and stealing from that New World brought with it the necessity of cheap labor, human labor . Father Claver applied himself for seven long years to the slave apostolate before he took his final vows in the Society. History: The son of a Catalonian farmer, was born at Verdu, in 1581. Cannot charity traverse seas already opened by cupidity?. But then, America did not give up on the idea. Heartfelt thanks for your prayers for our daughter during her recent serious illness. But it was not without the greatest difficulty, combined with some serious physical aggressiveness, that the sons of Saint Ignatius (with the help of the sons of Saint Augustine), strove to prevent the swelling crowds from literally tearing the saint apart in their efforts to procure relics. He joined the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), and after his novitiate in Taragona was sent to the college of . Saint Peter Claver,Priest and ReligiousMemorialSeptember 9th. Both these hospitals Claver visited each week, waiting on the patients in their material needs and bringing hardened sinners to penitence. Guest: Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M. Her condition, thank God, suddenly improved and both she and the baby are well. 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. 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. The dead man had assured him that he and his converted fellow countrymen were saved only because they had abandoned their errors and embraced the Catholic religion. Strecker's healing was among the miracles attributed to Claver that led to his 1888 canonization by Pope Leo XIII. Like an angel of mercy, the black-robed friar would arrive at the colony with the gifts that he had begged in the market place: oranges, bananas, preserves, sweet cakes, and soothing medicines. Jesuits were already ministering in North America among the Great Lakes native peoples on up through Canada. He prayed, slept, walked, labored, and preached in them for forty long years. Hearing of their capture, Father Claver requested and received permission to visit the fleet and offer holy Mass for the Spanish soldiers. All he did for the ancestors aligned him with the God of love. Six abandoned pagans from Biafara were lying in a shed, suffering from violent dysentery. It was not an uncommon thing to see a man who had been a slave give Holy Communion to one who had been his master. Ignatius Strecker came to America from Germany in 1853. However, witnesses testified that, despite the filth, the miraculous fabric always smelled fresh and clean. My grateful thanks to Blessed Mary . 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. You can add to these the faded and worn cloak of Saint Peter Claver. In 1602 he entered the Society of Jesus. He was unable to take a step. One of them appeared even more splendid than the rest. 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. Colonization and exploration was, in all parts, viewed an evil specter descended on pristine lands. 36 St Peter Claver by Shining Light Dolls on desktop and mobile. He was too busy loving to worry about hating. The first Mass at St. Peter Claver Catholic Church took place in October 1920. New lands to the west crossing the Atlantic Ocean had been discovered two hundred years previous. 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. It seemed that the blacks under Father Claver were destined to keep the straight and narrow. 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. The first principle in his instructions to his helpers was centered in the corporal works of mercy. 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.. Book a Tour Virtual Tour Ways to Give Online Donations The Sisters of St Peter Claver were founded by Blessed Theresa Ledchowska. Established in 1909, in an era of state-sanctioned racial and ethnic discrimination, the Knights of Peter Claver forged into a service organization for the entire family founded on Black. It was an era of expansion. A Catholic priest who led one of New Orleans' best-known inner-city churches until being accused of sexually molesting a child has been reported to federal authorities for possible financial crimes. PETER CLAVER, PRIEST. 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. 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. St. Peter Claver (1580-1654) was a Jesuit who, due to his life and work, became the patron saint of slaves, Colombia and African Americans. 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. Oddly enough, these men whom Claver used as interpreters were his own slaves. The magnificent Main Altar is the result of a pledge made by grateful parishioners who made a promise to St. Joseph. The crude picture graphically portrayed the Crucified Christ with His Precious Blood pouring from His Wounds into a basin. Even Mohammedans thought him fascinating, and many found it difficult to resist his entreaties for very long. 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. After he had performed the sacred ceremony to the great joy of the young Negress and the whole household, she instantly dozed off in death to retrace the steps she had previously taken, this time clothed in the proper wedding garment. 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. 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. Thank God, that for Father Claver the Church had her seasons and Lent didnt last forever! 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. So repulsive was his sickness that no one dares to go near him, lest they contract the infection. He informed his father of his intention to join the Society. The Knights of Peter Claver: St. Martin De Porres Council #297 and Ladies Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Francis Court #297 of The Archdiocese of Newark had a 3rd Degree Turnout on Sunday, August 11th, after 10:30 am Mass at Christ The King Church, Jersey City. Brother Nicolas was downstairs and heard a noise from the upstairs room where Claver was bedded. She stared at Claver and sighed, Jesus, Jesus how tired I am. Then, pressed by the others to relate what she has seen, she said that as she walked down a long beautiful road, a white man of great beauty stopped her and told her to return, for she could go no further. The very sight of these adandoned lepers was enough to send chills up ones spine. 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. With him were the merchant and some curious companions. Until death, he was politely told. St. Peter Claver. 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. Was Performed at the Shrine of St. Joseph in St. Louis, MO. St. Peter Claver Church maintains its position as a beacon of hope in the Treme Area and is one of the largest Black Catholic parishes in Louisiana. The religious there used to say that their welcome friend, Father Claver, did the work of forty men. 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. 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. One shipload would average between five and six hundred blacks from as many as fifteen or twenty African nations or tribes. In 1610, he landed at Cartagena (modern Colombia), the principle slave market of the New World, where a thousand slaves were landed every month. His troops- eighteen Negro interpreters, a Jesuit brother, a pious woman or two, and usually some prominent Cartagenian official. And the saint prayed hard. According to reports Medina faces up to 35 years to life in prison for the murder. T he second miracle took place in St. Louis. 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. Cursed be the law of the false prophet Mahomet, as well as all those who follow it. And on and on the stories go. Lifting his hands, they watered them with tears, crying out that they had lost their greatest friend and protector. The holy man seemed to touch everyone. Owing to the scarcity of priests who go to preach His name; what tears are not called for at the sight of so many people straying in the wilderness because there is no one to guide them. About a third of them died on the forced journey from Africa and many more would lose their lives in the subsequent years . to peoples judged, by the impoverished social consciousness of that time, substandard in their origin, purpose and development. He gulped his final breath of air lying in the arms of his confessor. 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. Much as men are willing to forgive those, who wrong them, yet they' never . Meanwhile, a man of importance ran through the streets, totally oblivious to human respect, and knocked forcefully at a door. Again at two oclock he would return after a scanty meal and a meditation. Spain brought a cease to trafficking in slaves in 1850. 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.. Once the authorities woke up to this situation when a complaint was brought forward that Father Claver was in the habit of re-baptizing Negroes! They were especially amazed at the devoutness of the Catholic soldiers. True! 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. I never heard him complain. He would also use pictures in his teaching, primarily images of the crucified Christ. Learn interesting facts and tidbits about the beloved St. Patrick. 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. X-rays later revealed no . When he slept, or tried to sleep, he removed only the neck rope and the crown of thorns. But when he saw the condition of Africans in the stinking slave pens of Cartagena, Colombia, he became bold and outspoken. Only three times in those four years of his last tribulation did he leave the monastery. Absentee Line: (07) 3810 5950 As the transplanted Africans struggled to comprehend the evil that had befallen them, their intrinsic spiritual natures discovered something unique in America they had not seen before a fully articulated ritual relationship with the Supreme Being, who was pictured in the book Christians called the Bible not just as Creator and Ruler, but also as the God of History, a God who lifted up and cast down nations and peoples. 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. 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