Santuario de San Pedro Claver
Colonial Jesuit church and cloister museum honoring a missionary who ministered to enslaved arrivals at the port.
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This guide to the Santuario de San Pedro Claver in Cartagena centers on the Jesuit missionary who met slave ships the moment they landed, unable to share a language with anyone he tried to help. You'll hear how he improvised with gifts of citrus and bread, gestures, and African interpreters to be understood, and how he built a system of touch and repetition to teach doctrine to strangers. It opens outside, at Edgardo Carmona's bronze chess players frozen over a board in the plaza, before crossing into the church where Claver spent his decades of work.
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