This sacred and historical shrine is the site of the only Vatican authenticated miracle in a Midwestern church. The holy man had no time to lose. Wahlberg who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, is a practicing Catholic. He made use of the strangest instruments, such as bananas, and dates- the famous dates of Peter Claver,- whose miraculous power was heard as far away as Rome, and once even an ordinary soaked sponge. St. Peter Claver. The women, in particular, would shed abundant tears while embracing each other in great joy. The descendant of these six hundred English and Dutch converts can be seen to this very day in their blond-haired, blue-eyed progeny whom one may see walking the streets of Cartagena. What! One can hear the experts on the psychology of the underprivileged gasp- How dare he arouse guilt complexes with these victims of white racism!. St. Peter Claver. The faith was often perceived as a conduit of this evil. 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. In gratitude for the Fayette parish's support, the Voices of Peter Claver is opening the January concert to the public. They saw and they believed. This, of course, he had never done, except conditionally in cases of doubt, but he was nevertheless forbidden to baptize in the future. 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. What sort of a man must I be, that I cannot do a little good without causing so much confusion? Claver would ask. Masters were willingly freeing their slaves. Nor was the saint known to into ecstasies at the altar. All God wanted was their love in return. Today, we are a trilingual community with Masses in English, Spanish and French/Creole. Another saint whom he had known at school in Majorca, Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez, revealed his road in life to him. 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. 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. The resident Jesuits, despite the utter poverty of their quarters, gave their newly arrived brothers a hearty welcome, and immediately afterwards Claver was summoned up the Magdalena River to the capital city of Santa Fe de Bogota to finish his theology. The ship would then be loaded up with the extracted gold and silver and other new-world products destined for Spain. The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary were founded in 1949 by Father Leonard Feeney, M.I.C.M. But, if some disadvantaged Negro in now in heaven, because this tyrannical Father Claver made an occasion of sin less available to him, and, on the other hand, some Spaniard is burning forever in hell because luring near occasions were for him more accessible, you be the judge who was the more fortunate. 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 dignified old man appeared, wearing a long white beard, and Claver, having been apprised of the customary signs of English protocol, saluted the prelate with much respect and offered a toast to his health. Church law forbade a master to hold a slave who wanted to become a priest. Like all young men of his stripe he looked for adventure and new opportunities. Why? One shipload would average between five and six hundred blacks from as many as fifteen or twenty African nations or tribes. Asare-Dankwah, 62, has denied the rape accusation. This army was a militia of charity; its commander-in-chief was Father Peter Claver, a Jesuit, the hero of our story. People who were so horribly afflicted that they were actually shunned by their fellow lepers. 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. The novice was extremely devoted to the Blessed Mother and particularly fond of this shrine. Saint Paul, who never actually condemned slavery as such, nevertheless elevated the slave as equal in Gods eyes to the free, thereby inflicting slavery with a mortal wound. Moreover, the weather was hot, the stench so unbearable in the stuffy hut, and the sight so repulsive that the Negress took flight. Furthermore, their own chiefs, who showed absolutely no concern for a common hue when material gain was offered to them, often betrayed the Negroes. 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. 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. 36 St Peter Claver by Shining Light Dolls published on 2019-09-08T23:42:20Z. Africans at that time were abused because they were backward and exploitable, not because they were black. He found employment in a local soap factory. He became a bishop and instituted a feast in honor of Our Ladys Immaculate Conception., He was the forty-eighth Pope. We are a Special Conference of the St Vincent DePaul Society serving Central Florida. 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. He was too busy loving to worry about hating. Strecker's healing was among the miracles attributed to Claver that led to his 1888 canonization by Pope Leo XIII. 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. St. Peter Claver became the faithful servant of slaves. Only three times in those four years of his last tribulation did he leave the monastery. FOR THE FEAST DAY OF ST. PETER CLAVER. 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. On that day Fr. A number of other Englishmen followed his example. 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. Immediately he set out to help them, taking with him a free Negress named Magdalena, who used to collect alms in the city for the saint to distribute. The vicar general of the diocese officiated at the funeral. 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. There were times when he even raised the dead with it. The joy in their eyes as they looked at us was something to see. That era of conquest was bereft of strands of a moral conscience, indeed a social ethic that would have troubled to its foundations the insidious business of the slave trade. Holding up the crucifix on a staff for all to see, he let them behold what their sins had done to their Creator. 8.00 am - 4.00 pm Telephone (07) 3810 5900 Fax (07) 3282 3190 Email. So zealous did he become after his conversion that he never ceased exhorting his ex co-religionist to enter the Catholic Church- outside of which, he told them no salvation could be hoped for. In due time the entire group of the imprisoned reformers followed the example of their spiritual leader and entered the Catholic Church with tremendous enthusiasm. Claver was a man who knew pain and knew its value. Bot the saint knew it not. And for the longest time no one but God and the saints of heaven knew what the holy man was going through. Sometimes the Mother of God herself appeared to certain of the infidels to rebuke them for not listening to Father Claver. People were patriotic, but color of a mans skin was just that and nothing more. 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. The methods this apostle used to restore life or health was often quite out of the ordinary. The beauty of the world; that thus I may with joy and courtesy go on my way. Meanwhile some of his close friends would prepare a splendid repast of the best foods and delicacies, and while the orchestra performed, the jubilant lepers devoured a sumptuous banquet. Everything to that time was old. His Mass, which followed, was deliberately short. Large numbers of the sick were lying on the wet ground or rather in puddles of mud. M.J.K. Cajeten Pereira Bishop House In total six people were killed including the priest and three nuns killed in road accident at Sumer. By far the greatest damage the devil suffered from Father Claver was in the confessional, though some of us may cringe when we consider his methods of extracting vice. My grateful thanks to Blessed Mary . He also shares if he still wakes up in the middle of the night and why he moved with his family to Nevada. 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 . So severe were the lashings that the neighbors shuddered when they heard the sound of them in the still of the night air. Two years later there was another miracle at the church, and then another, and another. 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. An angel of mercy to the sick, Father Claver was also a seraph of consolation to prisoners. To Cartagena, flatteringly known as the Pearl of the Indies, all kinds of adventurers found their way. St. Peter Claver (1580-1654) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary to Latin America. top of page. RIVERVIEW QLD 4303 College Reception Hours. As one biographer put it, Like the Cid, even the dead corpse of Claver conquers the Moors.. The Novitiate in Tarragona was to our young novice a foretaste of the delights of the blessed in paradise. One day, after offering a funeral Mass for one of these converts, he decided to visit the obstinate patient. Thousands of times, during his forty years in the world of pain, he would take off that cloak and use it. Pleased by the courtesy of the Catholic priest, the archdeacon asked him in Latin for a private interview. Kindly pray for their departed Souls and their bereaved family. 14-141). Of course, more often than not he made use of much more religious means of intercession, such as relics, holy water (a sacramental that the saint never tired of sprinkling everywhere) and a rough-hewn cross of maple. We have here a man whose love knew no bounds, who had no fears except of offending God, a man who loved the unlovable. 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. At that moment. St. Peter Claver Parish St. Peter Claver Catholic Church 485 W. Fourth St. Lexington, KY 40508 859-254-0030 SPC Liturgical Art & Environment Update Updated building July 2022 Due to construction on the St. Peter Claver Church property we have addressed the following issues: St. Peter Claver Parish in Tyler hosted the second-annual procession ceremony for the Lord of Miracles on Tuesday night. The U.S. bishops have invited Catholics to observe the day with fasting and prayer for an end to racism in the United States. 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. Father Clavers first Mass was offered in the poor Jesuit Church at the altar of Our Lady of the Miracle, to whom he was touchingly devoted, never omitting a salute to her when leaving or entering the residence. Upon careful interrogation, even though the whole household had assumed otherwise, the wise priest perceived that she had never been baptized. 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. Aiding and abetting slavery was the inability of the European mind-set to process and receive and deem worthy the dignity of black skin. One Turkish galley slave had resisted Clavers pleadings for over twenty years when the saint heard that a sickness had put him at deaths door. He broke every rule in the book. 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. 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. He came spoke to him with such an authority and efficacy that the obstinate Turk yielded and begged for baptism. Though it was Gods will for our saint to be forgotten before he left this life, it was also His will that in death His humble servant be exalted. This was how we spoke to them, not with words but with our hands and our actions. In 1610, he landed at Cartagena (modern Colombia), the principle slave market of the New World, where a thousand slaves were landed every month. 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. Carry me safely to my destined place, like you carried Christ in your close embrace. 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. Father Peter Claver was overjoyed and dragged himself from his bed to greet his successor. 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. To counter the Protestant revolt, the Jesuits, founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola, had emerged from among the most talented of religious leaders for their time sworn to allegiance to their superior general and to the pope in Rome. Peter obeyed, and in 1610 landed at Cartagena, where for forty-four years he was the Apostle of the negro 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. Nevertheless, the routine was degrading enough to bring death at sea every year to about five thousand Negroes, and the infamous trade went on for about two hundred years. People who truly love God never put on artificial airs of piety, folding their hands and bowing their heads, while they shun sinners as if they were to be despised. The walls of Cartagena silently echoed the solemn news as it was piously whispered in every corner, The Saint is dying! Your sufferings are great, echoed the black-robed preacher, but not as great as you deserve. You are better off being a slave in America than a chief in Africa, he told them. He refused to be satisfied with a sloppy performance; each slave had to do it perfectly. 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. 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. PETER CLAVER, PRIEST. 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. Lifting his hands, they watered them with tears, crying out that they had lost their greatest friend and protector. He was sent to study at the University of Barcelona. The saint suddenly startled everyone by crying out her name: Agustina, Agustina, while sprinkling her with holy water. Some rights reserved. O, holy brother of my soul, what a field lies here opened to your zeal! 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. Suddenly the bearded padre would appear like an avenging angel, whip in hand (the same one he applied unmercifully to himself), and he descended on the wicked party with wrath, terrifying the guilty, and carrying off the devils spoils- i.e., drums or other instruments. It was November 1615. Worse still, kings encouraged rivals to crime so that they could be convicted and sold as criminals. 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. When we approached their quarters, we thought we were entering another Guinea. Sitting on a rock, he would put his cloak over their shoulders, if it was cold, and hear their confessions. 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. If you have already donated, we sincerely thank you. His feast day is celebrated on September 9th. 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. He never complains in any circumstances, for he is only an ass. He encouraged those masters who were good Catholics to look after the spiritual as well as the bodily well-being of the Negroes. Enter your email address to receive notifications by email every time we post something to the site. Day 1 - St. Peter Claver Novena. 6212NH Maastricht. Things would never be the same. At night in death row, instead of cries of despair, was often heard the crack of a penitential scourge which the saint had left behind saying, Suffer now, my brother, and make the best of the brief time remaining you.. During his life he baptized and instructed in the Faith more than 300,000 negroes. 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. 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. 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. St. Peter Claver was canonized in 1888. He first asked them for their babies so that he might poor the saving water of Baptism upon them; then, seeking out the dying, he spoke to them by way of interpreters, and obtaining their consent, he baptized them too. The Jesuits -Isaac Jogues, John de Brebeuf, Noel Chabanel and their companions have their blood soaked indelibly in American soil around the same time Claver was in Cartagena. Guest: Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M. Another saint whom he had known at school in Majorca, Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez, revealed his road in life to him. Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike License. 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. 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. 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. Ignatius Strecker came to America from Germany in 1853. Apostolate To all he brought the comforts of the sacramental religion. Mary Theresa has worked a miracle for me." Upon hearing the commotion, the doctors ran to the ward and were dumbfounded. Weeks would go by, before this floating mortuary would relinquish its infectious corpses to the ocean. Not long afterwards, at two oclock, while the assembled community invoked the names of Jesus and Mary, he sweetly surrendered his faithful soul to God. When he slept, or tried to sleep, he removed only the neck rope and the crown of thorns. 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. 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. Meanwhile, a man of importance ran through the streets, totally oblivious to human respect, and knocked forcefully at a door. 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. 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. 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. The startled priest, having been told the identity of the man kneeling before him, immediately lifted Father Claver up and dropping to his knees he likewise kissed the reverend feet of his predecessor with great emotion and confusion. Clasping his feet in their hands, they bade him farewell amid a profusion of sighs and tears. . Her condition, thank God, suddenly improved and both she and the baby are well. In the year 1650, Father Claver went to preach the Churchs jubilee year among the Africans working in the mines and plantations along the coast, but sickness attacked his weakened body, and he was recalled to the residence at Cartagena. 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. Spain brought a cease to trafficking in slaves in 1850. 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. In Clavers time wars between and among European monarchs raged, one bloody feud after another, they seemed endless. Saint Peter's Mount consists of limestone, which is called 'mergel' in Limburg. 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. One of them appeared even more splendid than the rest. Peter Claver crossed the seas but once, and never quitted, for the rest of his life, the country to which obedience restricted him. 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. A priest was baptizing Negroes with the Blood. In a second, a priest opened it. In fact, her body was being prepared for the funeral shroud. His austerities, which will be described later, would make even holy Job shudder. 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. Besides visiting the slave huts, the zealous father had other apostolates that he lovingly attended to: the hospital of St. Sebastian, the leprosarium of St Lazarus, and the prisons. 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. The first Mass at St. Peter Claver Catholic Church took place in October 1920. 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. PO Box 6016. They thought that their blood was going to be used to dye the ships sails, and that their fat to grease her keel. Personal and occupational duties stood in the way of the man being then reconciled but he took ill and was removed to St. Sebastians hospital where before he died he was received into the Church by Father Claver. When he is starved, he is dumb. The Gospel of this first Sunday of Lent presents to us Jesus in the desert, tempted by the devil (cf. The fever of discovery proved, unfortunately, the beginning of the extermination of the native peoples. At long last, the pilgrim came home to his city, Cartagena. 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