It all happened on a single day.
At Mass on 9 September, I recalled the life of the saint whose feast day it was.
Servant of Slaves!
Born in a prosperous farming family in the Catalan region of Spain in 1580, Peter Claver was a bright and pious student at the University of Barcelona. After studies, he became a Jesuit at the age of twenty. He was sent to study philosophy at Montesione College, in Palma in Mallorca (Majorca). Inspired by the Jesuit Brother who was the door keeper of the college for forty-six years and later became a saint, St Alphonsus Rodriguez, Claver volunteered to work in the Spanish colony of Granada (Colombia) in South America and travelled to the port city of Cartagena in 1610.
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Fr M A Joe Antony SJ
