Handmade original St. Peter Claver wooden doll ornament. Perfect for the Christmas Tree. Bring out on his feast day or for a Novena. Gift for a birthday or sacrament (Baptism, First Communion, Confirmation, Holy Orders, Marriage) celebration. Teacher, priest, grandparent gift.
Born in 1581, a Spanish Jesuit inspired by St. Alphonsus Rodriquez to leave his homeland forever in 1610 to go to the Indies and save “millions of perishing souls”; by this time the slave trade had been established in the Americas for 100 years, with 10,000 slaves pouring in each year after crossing the Atlantic Ocean from West Africa under conditions so inhuman that an estimated 1/3 of passengers died in transit.
