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November 22, 2008

 

Photo: City church at night

Church of San Pedro Claver, Cartagena, Colombia, 1989

Photograph by O. Louis Mazzatenta

Founded in 1603, this Spanish colonial church holds the remains of Father Claver, who ministered to enslaved Africans when Cartagena, Colombia, had the largest slave market in the Caribbean. He cared for the sick and dying and baptized tens of thousands.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Cartagena Nights," April 1989, National Geographic magazine)

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