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Peter Claver
Peter Claver was a Spanish Jesuit priest who spent nearly forty years in Cartagena de Indias ministering to enslaved Africans arriving on slave ships. He met the ships, brought food and medicine, nursed the sick and baptised many thousands. Canonised in 1888, he is the patron saint of slaves and of Colombia.
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