St. Peter Claver

Catholic Saints

Augustine Institute

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🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Dr. Carl Vennerstrom shares about St. Peter Claver, a saint with a heart for the poor, outcast, and enslaved. As a young, Jesuit priest he signed up to be a missionary to the New World to serve the slaves at the port of Cartagena, a major hub of slave trade. St. Peter indiscriminately preached the gospel through words and works of mercy to all he encountered.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints. This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute,
0:09.1	an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.
0:19.2	Hello, welcome to Catholic Saints.
0:21.1	My name is Mary and I am joined with Dr. Carl Venisham.
0:24.5	Thank you for joining us.
0:25.7	Very glad to be here, Mary.
0:27.7	And today's episode we're going to talk about the life of St. Peter Claver, one of the best.
0:34.4	Yeah, one of the best, yeah.
0:36.6	Yeah, a great early modern saint and a great missionary saint.
0:40.3	Absolutely, absolutely.
0:41.3	Can we start with a biographical sketch about the saint?
0:45.3	Yeah, sure.
0:46.3	So he was born in Spain, born in 1581, and he becomes a Jesuit, which was really taking off at this time of the Jesuits,
0:57.8	this grand missionary order. So he wants to go to the New World. And after he studies in
1:04.5	Barcelona for a while, he's granted this request and he's sent to New Granada, which is modern day Colombia and Panama.
1:13.7	I think you're supposed to say Colombia.
1:15.8	Columbia.
1:16.6	I always say Colombia and that's wrong.
1:18.8	And the New World is North America, South America.
1:22.7	Yeah, North and South America.
1:24.8	Yeah.
1:25.7	For the Spanish, it meant especially South and Central America.
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