Overview

• Regional papers name San Pedro Claver as the principal commemoration for Tuesday, September 9, 2025.
• Coverage recounts his more than 40 years assisting enslaved Africans in Cartagena de Indias, where he became known as the “slave of the slaves.”
• LA GACETA highlights his recognition as patron of human rights and of missions among Afro‑descendant communities and notes his canonization in 1888 by Pope Leo XIII.
• Diario Uno adds biographical detail, citing his birth in Verdú in 1580, his death in 1654, and his beatification in 1850 by Pope Pius IX.
• Lists of additional commemorations vary by outlet, with examples including San Kieran of Clonmacnoise, San Gorgonio de Roma, Beata María de la Cabeza, Beato Federico Ozanam, and Beato Francisco Gárate, while El Norte de Castilla characterizes Claver as a 19th‑century religious from Lleida.