{"id":26635,"date":"2011-09-09T05:42:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T09:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/saint-peter-claver-1\/"},"modified":"2011-09-09T05:42:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T09:42:16","slug":"saint-peter-claver-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/saint-peter-claver-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Peter Claver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Peter%20Claver%20sees%20Jesus%20Christ%20and%20the%20Virgin%20before%20death.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Peter Claver sees Jesus Christ and the Virgin before death.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/09\/St Peter Claver sees Jesus Christ and the Virgin before death-thumb-300x269-10138.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>Today the Church liturgically remembers one of her missionary saints, Saint Peter Claver, (1580-1654) a Spainard who came from a very modest but known family heritage. Claver was influenced by what he heard and what he read in Jesuit houses of the missionaries. The brother porter-saint of Claver&#8217;s Jesuit house of studies, Alphonsus Rodriquez, frequently spoke of the need great work he could do in sharing the Gospel in mission lands.&nbsp;So moved to serve the Divine Majesty in a distant land, he requested of his superiors to be sent on mission to the New World. In what is known today as Columbia, South America, Claver worked with the negro-slaves teaching them the faith, and attending to their human and spiritual needs. In Claver&#8217;s eyes he took Saint Paul&#8217;s teaching that there are no distinctions in the Kingdom between Jew and Greek, slave or free, man or woman: all are the adopted children of God. As one person put it, for 33 years Father Peter Claver lavished love on the slaves that transcended the natural order. It was a love that confounded his religious superiors and the leaders in civil society of his day. It is reported that the saint brought to Christ 300K souls.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Let us remember in prayer the missionaries and those who work to evangelize.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Church liturgically remembers one of her missionary saints, Saint Peter Claver, (1580-1654) a Spainard who came from a very modest but known family heritage. Claver was influenced by what he heard and what he read in Jesuit houses of the missionaries. The brother porter-saint of Claver&#8217;s Jesuit house of studies, Alphonsus Rodriquez, frequently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/saint-peter-claver-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Peter Claver<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1708],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}