St. Peter Claver Baptized Over 300,000 People! Miracle Worker Patron Saint of Racism, Slaves and African Americans - Saint of Sept. 9
St. Peter Claver Baptized Over 300,000 People! Miracle Worker Patron Saint of Racism, Slaves and African Americans - Saint of Sept. 9
Biography - The son of a Catalonian farmer, was born at Verdu, in 1581; he died on the 8th of September, 1654. St. Peter obtained his first degrees at the University of Barcelona. At the age of twenty he entered the Jesuit novitiate at Tarragona. While he was studying philosophy at Majorca in 1605, Alphonsus Rodriguez, the saintly door-keeper of the college, learned from God the future mission of his young associate, and thenceforth never ceased exhorting him to set out to evangelize the Spanish possessions in America. Peter obeyed, and in 1610 landed at Cartagena, where for forty-four years he was the Apostle of the negro slaves. Prayer to St. Peter Claver - Lord, for love of you, St. Peter Claver became the faithful servant of slaves. 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. We ask this through Our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one Go...
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