Saint Peter Claver Mutsvene wezuva remusi wa9 Gunyana
(Chikumi 26, 1581 - Gunyana 8, 1654)
Iyo nyaya yeSan Pietro Claver
Pakutanga kubva kuSpain, wechidiki Jesuit Peter Claver akasiya nyika yekwake zvachose muna 1610 kuti ave mumishinari mumakoloni eNyika Itsva. Akaenda nechikepe muCagagena, iro rakapfuma guta rechiteshi rakapoteredzwa neCaribbean. Akagadzwa imomo muna 1615.
Panguva iyoyo kutengeswa kwevaranda kwainge kwatangwa muAmerican kweanoda kusvika zana ramakore uye Cartagena yaive nzvimbo yayo yepakati. Varanda zviuru gumi vaidurura kuchiteshi gore rega rega mushure mekuyambuka Atlantic kubva kuWest Africa munzvimbo dzinotyisa uye dzisina hunhu zvekuti zvinofungidzirwa kuti chikamu chimwe muzvitatu chevatakurwi vakafa mukufamba. Kunyangwe iko kuita kwekutengeswa kwevaranda kwakashorwa naPapa Paul III uye gare gare kunzi "huipi hwakanyanya" naPope Pius IX, yakaramba ichibudirira.
Akafanotungamira Peter Claver, Jesuit baba Alfonso de Sandoval, akange azvipira kushandira varanda kwemakore makumi mana Claver asati asvika kuzoenderera mberi nebasa rake, achizviti "muranda wevatema nekusingaperi".
Pakangopinda ngarava yevaranda kuchiteshi, Peter Claver akatamira munzvimbo yake yekubatsira vabati vakashungurudzwa uye vakaneta. Mushure mekunge varanda vaburitswa mungarava semhuka dzakasungwa necheni uye vakavharirwa mumawadhi ari pedyo kuti vatariswe nevanhu vazhinji, Claver njiva pakati pavo nemishonga, chikafu, chingwa, brandy, mandimu nefodya. Nerubatsiro rwevaturikiri, akapa rairo dzekutanga uye akavimbisa hama nehanzvadzi dzake nezvehunhu hwavo uye rudo rwaMwari.Mumakore makumi mana ehushumiri hwake, Claver akadzidzisa nekubhabhatidza varanda mazana matatu ezviuru.
Kutsauka kwaP.Claver kwakapfuurira mberi kwekuchengeta kwake varanda. Akave simba rehunhu, zvirokwazvo, mupostori weCagagagena. Akaparidza munzvimbo yemutaundi, akapa mamishinari nevashambadzi, pamwe nemamishinari emunyika, panguva yaaidzivirira, pese pazvinenge zvichibvira, kugamuchira vaenzi kwevaridzi nevaridzi uye pachinzvimbo chekugara muimba yevaranda.
Mushure memakore mana ekurwara, izvo zvakamanikidza mutsvene kuti arambe asingashande uye achiregeredzwa zvakanyanya, Claver akafa musi wa Gunyana 8, 1654. Vatongi veguta, avo vaive vambofinyama nekushushikana kwavo nevatema vakasiyiwa, vakaraira kuti akavigwa muripo pachena uye nekukudzwa kukuru.
Peter Claver akagadzwa mutsvene muna 1888 uye Pope Leo XIII akamuti ndiye mushandi wepasi rese webasa reumishinari pakati pevaranda vatema.
Kufungisisa
Simba nesimba raMweya Mutsvene zvinoratidzwa mune zvakasarudzika zvaPeter Claver nezviito zveushingi. Sarudzo yekusiya nyika yekwake uye asingazombodzoka inoratidza chihombe chiitiko chekuda icho chakaoma kufungidzira. Kutsunga kwaPeter kushandira vanhu vakashungurudzwa zvakanyanya, vakarambwa uye vanozvininipisa nekusingaperi igamba rinoshamisa. Kana tichiyera hupenyu hwedu newemurume akadaro, tinova nekuziva zvatinogona kushandisa uye kudiwa kwedu kwekuvhura zvakanyanya pasimba rinotyisa reMweya waJesu.