Churches in Lexington, Kentucky and West Hartford, Connecticut are two of many US Catholic churches named after this 1600s Spanish Jesuit missionary. He was made a saint in 1888 for his work with enslaved Africans arriving at Cartagena in what is now Colombia. Which saint, later named patron of Catholic missions to African peoples, do they honour?

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Peter Claver. Peter Claver (1580-1654) spent forty years meeting slave ships at Cartagena in what is now Colombia, helping an estimated 300,000 Africans who passed through the port. Made a saint in 1888, he is now honoured at Catholic churches across the US, including in Lexington, Kentucky and West Hartford, Connecticut.