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Passed away Sep 08, 1654

Saint Peter Claver (Pere Claver i Sobocano)

Prêtre jésuite catalan, autoproclamé « esclave des esclaves pour toujours », qui soigna et défendit plus de 300 000 captifs africains déportés à Carthagène des Indes.

Cartagena, Colombia 19 views 🕯️ 0 candles

Passed away Jul 14, 1614

Saint Camillus de Lellis (Camillo de Lellis)

Prêtre italien et saint, fondateur de l'Ordre des Camilliens, inventeur des premières ambulances de guerre et pionnier de l'utilisation de la croix rouge sur les champs de bataille.

Rome, Italy 5 views 🕯️ 0 candles

Passed away Feb 05, 1590

Bernardino de Sahagun (Bernardino de Sahagun)

Franciscan friar and visionary linguist acclaimed as the 'First Anthropologist of the Americas', who spent sixty years documenting Nahua culture, religion, and botany in the twelve-volume bilingual Florentine Codex.

Mexico City, Mexico 3 views 🕯️ 0 candles

Passed away Mar 08, 1550

Saint John of God (João Cidade de Deus)

Fondateur portugais de l'Ordre des Frères Hospitaliers de Saint-Jean-de-Dieu, révolutionnaire des soins hospitaliers et du traitement digne des malades mentaux.

Granada, Spain 13 views 🕯️ 0 candles

Passed away Aug 12, 1546

Francisco de Vitoria (Francisco de Vitoria)

Renaissance Dominican theologian and jurist of the School of Salamanca whose lectures 'De Indis' laid the foundations of modern international law, human rights, and the sovereign equality of indigenous peoples.

Salamanca, Spain 2 views 🕯️ 0 candles

Passed away Jun 27, 1540

Antonio de Montesinos (Fray Antonio de Montesinos)

Spanish Dominican friar who delivered the historic Advent sermon of 1511 on Hispaniola, the first public denunciation of European mistreatment and enslavement of indigenous peoples in the New World.

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 1 views 🕯️ 0 candles

Passed away Nov 17, 1231

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary (Árpád-házi Szent Erzsébet)

Princesse royale de Hongrie et sainte médiévale, qui renonça à toute gloire princière pour construire un hôpital à Marbourg et soigner personnellement les plus misérables.

Marburg, Hesse, Germany 7 views 🕯️ 0 candles

Passed away c. 1755

Nanny of the Maroons (Granny Nanny)

Paramount leader of the Jamaican Windward Maroons who defeated the British army in the First Maroon War and secured sovereign autonomous lands for freed people.

Moore Town, Jamaica 1 views 🕯️ 0 candles

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