Guanajay Artemis (PD) Without wanting to justify for anything the Catholic Church's complicity with the conquest and colonization of America and much less to adhere me to the enthusiasm for the upcoming visit to Cuba of Pilgrim of Charity, as they call the Pope Benedict XVI, -who will meet with some of the ruling elite and not with the simple members of the opposition, because it seems that therefore its God's will-, yes I believe necessary to tender a bridge to mark the differences between the catholic monopoly and some priests.These reluctant and embarrassed to belong to an entity that was complicit in sustaining the slave system.
One of these priests was it St. Peter Claver, a missionary Jesuit born in Spain. After having passed through Cuba, and see the atrocities committed against human beings deceived by Catholicism that offered rest to them in the afterlife, went to Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, where for love and patience was able to give himself the best and win the affection and confidence of the oppressed, to perform the daunting task of educating them and to make them feel human beings and children of God, saving the honor that others like him discredited.
The same church that served as a lookout to the slave traders who were after the Maroons, who betrayed many of the blacks who fled the whip and the upside down and went in search of refuge to the priest and he delivered them as stray dogs to their owners, also knew to give men like St. Peter Claver.
Father Claver, from 1610 date in which he arrives at Cartagena until 1651, when he became ill, made his daily work in evangelization and catechesis of African slaves which came and settled on land, and he did not delay in speaking of the love to Christ and helping itself of stamps and drawings and aided by black interpreters to whom he had baptized.
Lifetime devoted to the spiritual service and material support of blacks, it was as much his love for this race that when the trade ceased almost completely, tried to go away to the African coasts to follow his mission on the same land where they hunted like animals to those he had known and loved like no other after God.
Old and taken by the epidemic plague of 165, which almost paralyzed him, reduced to a battered infirmary, assisted only by a black muzzle, Father Peter Claver died on September 8, 1654, celebration of the Virgin of the Moreneta, by which he felt always great devotion, there in Cartagena de Indias, where missionary made his mark as they known only to make it the men and women of authentic Christian fertility.
He was canonized in 1888 by Pope Leo XIII, who said of him: "After the life of Christ, none has so deeply touched my soul as the great apostle St. Peter Claver."
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St. Peter Claver
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