Santuario de San Pedro Claver

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.