By Currents News
The power of prayer filled the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph on Sept. 9 as Catholics in the Diocese of Brooklyn gathered to celebrate the feast day of St. Peter Claver, the patron saint of African Americans and interracial justice.
Father Alonzo Cox, Vicar for the Brooklyn Vicariate Office of Black Catholic Concerns, led the Eucharistic Adoration and evening Vespers, urging all people of faith to view one another as St. Peter Claver did — brothers and sisters of God.
St. Peter Claver, a Spanish Jesuit priest and missionary, baptized over 300,000 slaves in South America.