Directory of Saint Peter Claver Resources

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Information on St. Peter Claver, a Spanish Jesuit who served African slaves in what is now Colombia, and tried to halt the slave trade. He died in 1654.

Resources in This Category

• A Saint a Day: St. Peter Claver

  http://www.holyspiritinteractive.net/kids/saints/0909_claver.asp
  A short life of this saint, suitable for children.

• A Saint in the Slave Trade

  http://www.cin.org/petclavr.html
  Biography of St. Peter Claver, by Arnold Lunn.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Peter Claver

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11763a.htm
  Biography of the Spanish Jesuit priest who for 33 years ministered to African slaves in the New World, and tried to stop the slave trade. Died in 1654.

• Catholic Online: St. Peter Claver

  http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=94
  Biography by Terry Matz.

• Peter Claver

  http://catholicsaints.info/saint-peter-claver/
  Profile of the "Slave of the Blacks." Illustrated, with links, and a reading from one of the saint's letters.

• St. Peter Claver, Confessor

  http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/CLAVER.htm
  From the book "A Saint A Day" by Berchmans Bittle.

 

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