St peter claver biography

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The son of a Catalonian farmer, was born at Verdu, in 1581; he died 8 September, 1654.

He obtained his first degrees at the University of Barcelona. At the age of twenty he entered the Jesuitnovitiate at Tarragona.

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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. Early in the seventeenth century the masters of Central and South America afforded the spectacle of one of those social crimes which are entered upon s