Peter Claver«Pere Claver i Sobocano / Pere Claver i Corberó»
(1581–1654)
Missionary, Priest
Place of birth:Principality of Catalonia (Crown of Aragon)†
Place of death:Governorate of Cartagena (New Kingdom of Granada)††
Feastday
9 September
Beatification
16/07/1851 by Pius IX
Canonisation
15/01/1888 by Leo XIII
Patronage
Patron of:Colombia (Republic of Colombia)†††
Patron of:ministry to African Americans, race relations, seafarers, slaves
†Prencipau de Catalunya (Corona d'Aragón) / Principat de Catalunya (Corona d'Aragó) / Principado de Cataluña (Corona de Aragón) / Principatus Cathaloniae (Corona Aragonum) [1164–1716]
††Gobierno de Cartagena (Nuevo Reino de Granada) [1538–1717]
†††Colombia (República de Colombia) [1819– ]
Saints
This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.
The names of the saints are listed as they would have appeared in the time the saint lived (to the best I can determine). Click on the saint’s name in the list to see more information about that saint. If you wish to see saints for a different date, select that date below. Or you can select a saint by their name or by places they are associated with.
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Sources
Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:
D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.
Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.
Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.
Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990
and the following websites:
and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia