Petrus Claver
Martyrological notice
The historical Roman Martyrology commemorates Petrus Claver on 8 September. The Latin notice identifies the record as confessor. The source places the commemoration at Carthagine nova, in America meridionali.
Historical martyrology witness · Martyrologium Romanum (Latin historical edition)
Carthagine nova, in America meridionali, sancti Petri Claver, Sacerdotis e Societate Jesu et Confessoris; qui mira sui abnegatione et eximia caritate Nigritis in servitutem abductis, annos amplius quadraginta, operam impendens, tercenta fere eorum millia Christo sua ipse manu regeneravit; et a Leone Decimo tertio, Pontifice Maximo, in Sanctorum numerum relatus est, ac dein etiam caelestis Patronus peculiaris sacrarum ad Nigritas Missionum constitiitus et declaratus.