Friday, February 29, 2008

Convento De San Pedro Claver

I found this little blurb on vacation article to Cartagna Columbia


So rich is the city's historical legacy, in fact, that it is treated almost casually. The cathedral, for instance, still bears the scars of cannon fire from Drake's ships, while the Palacio de la Inquisición, once the seat of the Holy Office's Punishment Tribunal, now functions as a grisly museum of medieval religious torture. At the Convento de San Pedro Claver, named after a 17th-century monk canonised for his ministry to Colombia's slaves, tourists can visit the cell where the Jesuit saint lived and died.

Link (here)
St. Peter Claver, S.J. (here)

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