Peter Claver
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Peter Claver was a Spanish Jesuit priest and missionary born in Verdú, Spain, Spanish Empire, who, due to his life and work, became the patron saint of slaves, Colombia, and ministry to African Americ
Petrus Claver, Aethiopum Servus (Peter Claver, Slave of the Africans)
Portrait of St. Peter Claver in the museum Palace of Inquisition, Cartagena, Colombia
Church of St. Peter Claver in Cartagena, Colombia, where Claver lived and ministered
The bones of Claver under an altar at the Church of St. Peter Claver in Cartagena
Jesuits
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The Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits, is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church. Headquartered in Rome, it was founded i
Peter Claver
…Peter Claver (Catalan: Pere Claver i Sobocano, Spanish: Pedro Claver y Corberó; 26 June 1580 – 8 September 1654) was a Spanish Jesuit priest and missionary born in Verdú, Spain, Spanish Empire, who, due to his life and work, became the patron saint of slaves, Colombia, and ministry…
Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits
A fresco depicting Ignatius receiving the papal bull from Pope Paul III was created after 1743 by Johann Christoph Handke in the Church of Our Lady Of the Snow in Olomouc.
Jesuits at Akbar's court in India, c. 1605
Ratio Studiorum, 1598