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Peter Claver SJ (Spanish: Pedro Claver y Corberó; 26 June 1580 – 8 September 1654) was a Spanish Jesuit priest and missionary born in Verdú, Spain, who, due to his life and work, became the patron saint of slaves, Colombia, and ministry to African Americans.
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A special mass will be held at 7 p.m. Monday at St. Peter Claver. “He had an extraordinary impact in the faith community,” said Bob Babbage, one of his parishioners at St. Peter Claver.
Bishop Benedict Fenwick of Boston in 1829 purchased an existing Episcopalian church in Hartford to create Holy Trinity, the first Catholic church in the state. By the 1840's, the population in the region had grown sufficiently to move Fenwick to petition the Vatican for a diocese for Connecticut and Rhode Island .
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St. James Episcopal Church, 25 West Street. A granite Gothic Revival church completed in 1872, making it the oldest extant church building in the district. The parish hall and rectory were added in 1929. St. Peter's Catholic Church, 119 Main Street. The 175-foot (53 m) spire of this 1870s building dominates the Danbury skyline.
St. Peter's is the fifth oldest Roman Catholic Church in the Diocese of Bridgeport. [5] As the first Catholic church built in northern Fairfield County, St. Peter's drew parishioners from the surrounding towns, many of whom walked a considerable distance to Sunday Mass, at a time when the Eucharistic fast began at midnight.
St. John's Episcopal Church was founded in 1841, [1] in downtown Hartford, Connecticut.Its first building was designed by Henry Austin (architect). [6] An activist organization, [1] St. John's was instrumental in the development of other prominent Hartford area churches including the Church of the Good Shepherd and Parish House, St. John's Episcopal Church in East Hartford, and St. Monica's ...