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Jesuit missionary to South America who, in dedicating his life to the aid of enslaved Africans, earned the title of โapostle of the Negroes.โ
Peter entered the Society of Jesus in 1602 and eight years later was sent to Cartagena, where he was ordained in 1616. The miserable condition of enslaved people aboard ships and in the pens of Cartagena, South Americaโs chief slave market, caused Peter to declare himself โthe slave of the Negroes foreverโ; he dedicated the rest of his life to alleviating their suffering. Accompanied by interpreters and carrying food and medicines, he boarded every incoming slave ship and visited the pens, where he nursed the sick, comforted the distraught and terrified captives, and taught religion. Despite strong official opposition, Peter persevered for 38 years, baptizing an estimated 300,000 enslaved individuals. He also visited them on the local plantations to encourage their faith and to exhort their masters to treat them humanely; during these visits he often refused the hospitality of the plantation owners and instead stayed in the slave quarters.
He was canonized by Pope Leo XIII, who in 1896 proclaimed him patron of all Roman Catholic missions to African peoples. Peter is also the patron saint of those in slavery and the Republic of Colombia.
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๐ ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ต ๐๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข ๐ด๐ญ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ด๐ญ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐จ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ข๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฑ, ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต, ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ถ๐ด ๐๐ฉ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ต, ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ. ๐๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ถ๐ด ๐๐ฉ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ต, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ช๐จ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐บ ๐๐ฑ๐ช๐ณ๐ช๐ต, ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ, ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ.
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