Sep 09

Saint Peter Claver

September 9th XVII century

Name
Pedro (Masculino)
Meaning
Piedra, from Latín
Celebrate
People named Pedro use to celebrate 29-Jun:
Saint Peter Apostle
Other saints
Other saints named Pedro
Secular name
Pedro Claver Corberó
Born
June 26th 1580 en Verdú, in current Spain
Dead
September 8th 1654 in Cartagena, in current Colombia
Process
Celebration
September 9th
Religious
de la Compañía de Jesús
Picture of Saint Peter Claver Fuente: wikimedia.org
Saint Peer Claver, priest of the society of Jesus, who in new Cartagena, Colombia city, for more than forty years consumed his life with admirable abnegation and showed charity for black slaves, baptizing them with his own hands to almost three hundred thousand of them. Roman martyrology