Petrus Claver, Aethiopum Servus (Peter Claver, Slave of the Africans)
Born
26 June 1580 Verdú, Kingdom of Aragon, Spanish Empire
Died
8 September 1654(1654-09-08) (aged 74)[1] Cartagena, New Kingdom of Granada, Spanish Empire
Venerated in
Catholic Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Beatified
20 July 1850, Rome by Pope Pius IX
Canonized
15 January 1888, Rome by Pope Leo XIII
Major shrine
Church of Saint Peter Claver Cartagena, Colombia
Feast
9 September
Patronage
Slaves, Colombia, race relations, ministry to African-Americans, seafarers
Peter Claver SJ (Spanish: Pedro Claver y Corberó; 26 June 1580 – 8 September 1654) was a Spanish Jesuit priest and missionary born in Verdú (Spain) who, due to his life and work, became the patron saint of enslaved people, the Republic of Colombia, and ministry to Africans.
During the 40 years of his ministry in the New Kingdom of Granada, it is estimated he personally baptized around 300,000 people and heard the confessions of over 5,000 people per year. He is also patron saint for seafarers. He is considered a heroic example of what should be the Christian praxis of love and of the exercise of human rights.[2]
The Congress of the Republic of Colombia declared September 9 as the Human Rights national Day in his honor.
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^"La virtud heroica del "esclavo de los esclavos" en Claver, de Oswaldo Díaz Díaz". Más allá del héroe. Antología crítica de teatro histórico hispanoamericano. Editorial Universidad de Antioquía. 2008. p. 60. ISBN 978-958-714-172-6.
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