On Nov. 3, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Martin de Porres, a Peruvian Dominican brother who lived a life of humble service and charity and became the first black saint of the ...

Martin Maria de Porres Ward, a Black American priest who had to leave the United States to undertake his calling, is now being considered by the Catholic Church for beautification Martin Maria de ...

Many residents of Lima already spoke of Brother Martin de Porres as a living saint before his death at age 60 on Nov. 3, 1639. But his canonization did not occur until 1962, under Bl. Pope John XXIII.

The Conventual Franciscans saw no problem with his being Black, and so he entered in late 1945, taking the religious name of Martin Maria de Porres to honor both the saint from South America and ...

Much of that history is generally unknown to Black Catholics as well as to ... are models of living the Gospel life. Nov. 3 Saint Martín de Porres Did you know that the only saint, of African ...

Saint Martin De Porres was born in 1579 in Lima, Peru. His father, Don Juan de Porres, was a Spanish nobleman who became governor of Panama. His mother, Anna Martin, was a freed black slave.

LIMA, Peru — A new reconstruction of the face of St. Martin de Porres reveals the face of ... the face of the famed black saint. For his part, 3-D designer Cicero Moraes explained that when ...

a more substantial facility was built and named after St. Martin de Porres, a Peruvian saint of mixed African descent. The facility was one of the first hospitals in Alabama to employ black nurses ...