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.

Saint Martin de Porres was born in Lima, Peru in 1579 to Don Juan de Porres, a Spanish nobleman, and Ana Velasquez, a freed daughter of slaves from Panama. At a very young age, his father ...