To care for the slaves he must totally subject his own flesh and subdue it. His Mass, which followed, was deliberately short. One priest who loved Father Claver dearly and who longed to have his charity went with him to tend a poor afflicted slave. Yet he seemed destined to drink the chalice of Christs Passion to the bitter end. Give your warning sign if danger is near so that I may stop while the path is clear. In this case, the dignitary was the governor himself, Don Jeronimo Zueso Cassola, the same man who raced to tell Father Claver the good news. During his life he baptized and instructed in the Faith more than 300,000 negroes. 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. Because it is an excellent building material, miners started excavating the mountain some 1,000 years ago. A child could understand it, and these blacks were like children. He stayed there, except to attend to the missions nearby, like Our Lady on Calvarys hill. Saint Peter Claver Church was established in 1931 to serve the African American community of greater Montclair, New Jersey. 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. 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. They thought that their blood was going to be used to dye the ships sails, and that their fat to grease her keel. It officially closed in. He also exercised an apostolate among the traders, the sailors and others whom he found in this hospital, Claver also brought about the conversion of an Anglican dignitary, represented to be an archdeacon of London, whom he met when visiting prisoners-of-war on a ship in the harbor. Even in sickness he would not ease up. We have here a man whose love knew no bounds, who had no fears except of offending God, a man who loved the unlovable. In Christianity, foremost of the apostles.His name was Simon but according to the gospels Jesus called him from his work as fisherman and gave him the name 'Cephas', the Aramaic equivalent of Greek 'Peter' (petra, 'rock').According to early tradition Peter visited Rome where he was martyred (1 Clement 5, etc. He was sent to study at the University of Barcelona. Of these we had two wallets full, and we used them all up on this occasion. It was reckoned that there would be a loss in each cargo by death during the six or seven weeks voyage of a least a third. 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. The dignity of man as redeemed and one with Christ, indeed a member of His Mystical Body, tended to stigmatize the institution as unworthy of a Christian. 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. Two orders, the Trinitarians and the Order of Mercy had this for their object. Jn 17:11). 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. He was much more than that to the Negroes. So Claver gave it none- except what was absolutely necessary to sustain life. There were government officials, businessmen, merchants, seamen, miners, plantation owners, engineers and middlemen whose lives profited from this nefarious trade; among them Jews and Christians of various denominational traditions who rationalized this sordid enterprise. While he was studying philosophy at Majorca in 1605, Alphonsus . Permission was not at first granted and Claver was ordered instead to return to the college at Barcelona for more study in theology. This collection, which dates from 1904 to 2009, with bulk dates of 1980 to 1994, consists of records and materials evidencing the workings of the church and its community, primarily . These austerities were part of the saints daily nocturnal prayer life.His penances clung to him like the skin to the bones. Agustinus Seran, SVD - Pastor 1203 North Nebraska Ave., Tampa, FL 33602 Office Hours: Monday - Thursday, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Mass Times Weekend Masses: Saturday Vigil - 4:00 pm Sunday Morning - 10:00 am *Haitian Creole Mass - 1:00 pm Daily Masses Wednesday - 9:00 am Friday - 8:00 am Confession Schedule These were bought in West Africa for four crowns a head, or bartered for goods and sold in America for an average two hundred crowns-a-piece. And when the slaves misbehaved Father Claver was always blamed. 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. St. Peter Claver was canonized in 1888 by Pope Leo . The magnificent Main Altar is the result of a pledge made by grateful parishioners who made a promise to St. Joseph. One of them appeared even more splendid than the rest. However, the consideration of the problem of his wife and family, who would resent the temporal loss that would go with his renouncing of the Church of England, prevented the weak man from doing his duty to God right away, though he did promise to do so before he died. slavery is gone but many of its effects remain; remain not only on the Blacks but also on the Whites. Through his efforts three hundred thousand souls entered the Church. Wahlberg who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, is a practicing Catholic. Alphonsus intuited the capabilities of the young scholastic and saw in him a man fit for new, arduous and neglected work up to now unattended to, namely working among blacks in bondage. 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. The slave of the slaves believed in simplicity. Cartagena was hit with five major epidemics during Clavers apostleship (1615-1654). Holding up the crucifix on a staff for all to see, he let them behold what their sins had done to their Creator. 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. Having baptized the dying and given his first attentions to the sick, the black-robed angel of mercy gathered all the slaves together and begun to speak to them of God. Yes, Peter Claver intended to do just that, knowing as he did, that consciences speak more easily in time of sorrow than of joy. There were times when he even raised the dead with it. The devil always wants to create division, and it is what he sets out to do by tempting Jesus. Our Saints upbringing carries nothing too spectacular about it. At the end of the Masses, a group of distinguished men approached the casket. The ceremony was initiated with a rosary then a mass blessing of the. Weeks would go by, before this floating mortuary would relinquish its infectious corpses to the ocean. And to save many souls.. But Claver was not deterred, not even when the ecclesiastical authorities lent too willing an ear to the complaints of his critics. How many more miracles have taken place in connection with this church over the past 150 years, no one knows. A galleon would contain, besides new immigrants, badly needed supplies and medicines, and of course, news and mail. . The Blessed Peter Claver was born at Verdu in Catalonia in the year 1581, of parents eminent for piety and virtue, who instilled like qualities into his infant heart from the very cradle. Boarding the slave ships as they entered the harbor, he would hurry to the revolting inferno of the hold, and offer whatever poor refreshments he could afford; he would care for the sick and dying, and instruct the slaves through Negro catechists before administering the Sacraments. The son of a Catalonian farmer, was born at Verdu, in 1581; he died on the 8th of September, 1654. A handsome supply of which was hung upon the back if his confessional; for others that the saint felt had enough of a penance to bear (the crippled, the lame, the aged, the destitute), he had more pleasant gifts: Rosary beads, or fruits, sweets, and similar delicacies. 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. All it needed was this seed from the wise master, Alonso. The final emergence was on behalf of the lepers at Saint Lazarus. Moreover, the weather was hot, the stench so unbearable in the stuffy hut, and the sight so repulsive that the Negress took flight. 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. He came spoke to him with such an authority and efficacy that the obstinate Turk yielded and begged for baptism. 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. 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. Into these yards Peter Claver plunged with medicines and food, bread, brandy, lemons, tobacco to distribute among them, some of whom were too frightened, others too ill to accept them. Saint Peter Claver,Priest and ReligiousMemorialSeptember 9th. He stayed there in his confessional until midday. The fact that Father Claver was able to open the kingdom of heaven to over three hundred thousand Negroes was due in no small degree to the help of his African co-workers. There were times when the streets of Cartagena and other more viable settlements would flow with blood from such cruel assaults. Nothing could be done to keep them away. 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. In the evening, the saint was torn with a violent fever that, together with the intense vehemence of his aspiring love, cast him into a motionless state, in which he lay unconscious, his face betraying in its peaceful composer the transport of love he was undergoing. He felt he had no grace to encourage someone else to carry a cross that he himself wasnt carrying. The major contagion was smallpox; but others. But when he saw the condition of Africans in the stinking slave pens of Cartagena, Colombia, he became bold and outspoken. It was 1602 when he entered their Novitiate in Tarragona. 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. The laws of Spain at least provided for the marriages of slaves, forbade their separation from their families and defended them from unjust seizure after winning their freedom. It was during these scourges that the holy mans heroic charity was such a spectacle for even the angels to behold. 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. 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. There were two blacks, nearer death than life, already cold, whose pulse could scarcely be detected. A third interment sees Claver today buried under the high altar dressed in priestly vestments while enclosed in glass for the veneration of the faithful. 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. Top SEO sites provided "Novena to god the father" keyword . The Gospel of this first Sunday of Lent presents to us Jesus in the desert, tempted by the devil (cf. Pages could be written about the glorious role ex-slaves played in the history of the Church- and not only ex-slaves, but actual slaves, like Saint Felicitas, who is mentioned in the Canon of every Mass along with her holy mistress, Saint Perpetua, whom she refused to be separated from, even in death. 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. For here dwelt the living dead- the very pit of human misery. Peter Claver crossed the seas but once, and never quitted, for the rest of his life, the country to which obedience restricted him. My grateful thanks to Blessed Mary . Saint Melania, a wealthy Roman matron, freed her 8,000 slaves at once. He, his wife, and daughter settled in St. Joseph's Parish in St. Louis, Missouri. Finally, after a third petition, approval was granted. And the eighty-year-old saint of Palma instantly recognized the sanctity he saw in the twenty-five year old Peter Claver. 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. For the infirm he would come out of his stuffy box and often set them on his knees so as to accommodate them more easily, and after he was through, he would invite them all for a little breakfast. Which had not? From a letter written by Peter Claver, priest, to his superiors, written in the Spanish language, 31 May, 1627. epist. The driver of the vehicle and a teacher were also killed in the incident around 3 pm. 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. 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. 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. His hands and clothing were instantly covered with infectious filth. Before pouring the cleansing water, he would ask them three times in a loud voice if they wanted to become Christians. An epidemic had spread again, and the saint began to feel its bite in his own flesh as he returned from a mission to his slaves in one of the outlying villages. 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. A St. Peter Claver Catholic Church member burns incense as a part of the church's first Senor de Los Milagros (Lord of Miracles) celebration procession in Tyler on streets near the church. Europeans and their ways, even their religion, met with suspicion and, in instances, outright hostility among some of the natives of the New World. Father Claver was already known for strong discipline of his body. He became a bishop and instituted a feast in honor of Our Ladys Immaculate Conception., He was the forty-eighth Pope. The entire city came out to pay him their respects. The saint made it so simple for their confused and despairing consciences that not one of Cartagenas condemned criminals went to his execution unrepentant. The Superior of the college arranged for the two of them to spend fifteen minutes a day conversing about spiritual things. Extra ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the Church there is no salvation). So horrible was the scene and revolting the conditions that a friend who came with Father Claver once could never face it again, and of Father de Sandoval himself it was written in one of the diary entries of his Jesuit province that, when he (Clavers friend) heard a vessel of Negroes was come into port he was at once covered with a cold sweat and death-like pallor at the recollection of the indescribable fatigue and unspeakable work on the previous like occasions. The holy man had no time to lose. We must speak to them with our hands before we speak to them with our lips.. The women, in particular, would shed abundant tears while embracing each other in great joy. He and his wife Rhea (married in 2009) have four children: Ella, 19, Michael, 16, Brendan, 14, and Grace, 13. 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. Again the gruesome routine began, washing their infections, kissing their sores, bandaging their wounds, even sweeping up their hovels. The Apostle of Cartagena worse a serious face. In the history of God's Saints we read of heroic souls giving themselves as slaves in exchange for Christian captives. Often the skin on the backs and shoulders of those too weak to help themselves would be worn to the very bone from the constant motion of the waves and rubbing of their flesh on the damp planks.Apparently these slave hustlers were the very dregs of Christian Europe. 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. 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. They provided no religious instruction or ministration for their slaves, no alleviation of their physical condition, so that the sacrament of baptism became to the slaves, unfortunately, a sign and symbol of their oppression and wretchedness instead of their salvation. He encouraged those masters who were good Catholics to look after the spiritual as well as the bodily well-being of the Negroes. 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. Six abandoned pagans from Biafara were lying in a shed, suffering from violent dysentery. Suddenly the girl who had been dead sat up and vomited a large quantity of blood. To Cartagena, flatteringly known as the Pearl of the Indies, all kinds of adventurers found their way. He would also use pictures in his teaching, primarily images of the crucified Christ. 2023 Knights of Peter Claver Cartagena was a central stopping point for this inhuman traffic. It reminded me of the miracles attributed to Peter Claver. After this we began an elementary instruction about baptism, that is, the wonderful effects of the sacrament on body and soul. He made a court appearance, was charged, and has allegedly confessed to the crime. 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. To the cynical mind the trust of this extraordinary priest in the goodness of human nature must have seem nave and no doubt could he have known he would have been far more often disappointed than not. 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. The following incident illustrates the struggle of the saint to overcome nature. The future apostle of the slaves was the youngest in his family, so from the start he knew only how to serve. In the past, when he came home from such missions, he was usually so reduced physically that he looked like a walking skeleton. When he is overloaded, he is dumb. Our patron, Peter Claver was a Spaniard, from Spain. One day, after offering a funeral Mass for one of these converts, he decided to visit the obstinate patient. His loving solicitude for these co-laborers was so great that if any of them fell sick he would give them his own bed, while he slept on the floor next to the sick man, so that he might be able to wait on him continually. 8.00 am - 4.00 pm Telephone (07) 3810 5900 Fax (07) 3282 3190 Email. 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. 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. Benedict XIV lashed out against it in 1741; Pius VII did the same in 1815. Thank God, that for Father Claver the Church had her seasons and Lent didnt last forever! 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. At three oclock in the morning he entered the church. In the autumn Claver would go among the traders and seamen, who landed at Cartagena in great numbers off supply ships and well as slave ships. On September sixth, two Negroes carried Father Claver to the chapel where he received Holy Communion with the devotion of a seraph. Were it not for a miracle, the poor Father, to the very end a victim to the devils rage, would have been tossed off and perhaps killed. Sept. 9: ST. PETER CLAVER, PRIEST. 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. . The Mohammedans, however, cost the saint much more effort to win to the true religion. 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 Thirty Years War and the wars of religion was the backdrop for this chapter of history within which Claver lived. This last mentioned convict was executed by strangulation. 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. 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. The following prayer service is an adaptation of the Liturgy of the Hours, and can be prayed individually or with a group. 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 top of page. No Caesar, proudly entering the gates of Rome, could have looked more glorious than this exuberant saint, as he triumphantly marched with his Negroes down the main avenue of Cartagena. 10 Old Ipswich Road. The son of a Catalonian farmer, was born at Verdu, in 1581; he died 8 September, 1654. 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. This steady concourse lasted until nightfall when the Fathers insisted on sending the people away and closing the doors. The fathers immediately took him to a more suitable room than his own cell to recuperate. Your gift is tax-deductible as allowed by law. Despite Father Clavers agonizing condition, the brutal attendant, when he had to dress him for a visit to the chapel, would shove him around with no sense of delicacy, yanking the aching victim here and there in frustration, as he clumsily clothed him. With their help, he was able to teach the Gospel with words that could be understood. 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. In the early centuries of Christianity, slavery gradually began to be phased out. The saint would never complain. After assuring them that they were not going to be slain, he held up high the crucifix and told them of the God-man and what He had suffered for them. He was too busy loving to worry about hating. 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. | Prioress: Sister Marie Thrse, M.I.C.M. His memorial is celebrated on September 9. As the saying goes, only love can afford to be severe. 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. 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. His feast is celebrated on September 9. How many souls in America might be sent to heaven by priests who are idle in Europe?. 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