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Peter Claver SJ (Spanish: Pedro Claver y Corberó; 26 June 1580 – 8 September 1654) was a Spanish Jesuit priest and missionary born in Verdú, Spain, who, due to his life and work, became the patron saint of slaves, Colombia, and ministry to African Americans.
Servers the sick - Saint Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur [26] Shepherds - Bernadette of Lourdes, [5] Cuthbert, Cuthman, Dominic of Silos, Drogo of Sebourg, George, Germaine Cousin, Julian the Hospitaller, Raphael the Archangel, Regina, Solange; Shoemakers - Crispin, Gangulphus, Peter the Apostle, Theobald of Provins; Shorthand writers ...
The military saints, warrior saints and soldier saints are patron saints, martyrs and other saints associated with the military.They were originally composed of the early Christians who were soldiers in the Roman army during the persecution of Christians, especially the Diocletianic Persecution of AD 303–313.
The date is significant because, during the night of 22 August to 23 August 1791, on the island of Saint Domingue (now known as Haiti), an uprising began which set forth events which were a major factor in the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo, Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1854; Documents of the American South, University of North Carolina; The Other Touissant by Ellen Tarry at the Open Library; Bristol, Jr., Douglas Walter (2015). Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom.
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), born into slavery, became an American educator, author and leader of the African-American community after the Civil War. Saint Brigid of Kildare, a major Irish Saint. According to tradition, Brigid was born in the year 451 AD in Faughart, [28] just north of Dundalk [29] [30] in County Louth, Ireland.
The day honours and remembers those who suffered and died as a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade, which has been called "the worst violation of human rights in history", [1] in which over 400 years more than 15 million men, women and children were the victims.
Royal edict ruling the freedom of children born from female slaves and the total abolition of slavery after 12 years. Dissatisfaction causes a slave rebellion in Saint Croix the next year. 1848: Hungary: The April laws completely abolished serfdom in Hungary (excluding Transylvania) and Croatia. Austria: Serfdom abolished. [126] [127] [128] France