Upon his acceptance to St. Francis in 1945, Ward took on the religious name of Martin Maria de Porres as his own. After his ordination in 1955 in Albany, New York, he volunteered to work at ...

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 ...

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.

St. Martin de Porres is depicted in a stained glass window at Holy ... Much of that history is generally unknown to Black Catholics as well as to the rest ... Nov. 3 Saint Martín de Porres.

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 ...

The son of a Spanish nobleman and a black slave woman, St. Martin de Porres was born in Lima in 1579. A talented medical apprentice, he sought to enter the Dominican Order, but was initially ...

It was certainly the year when we became aware of the campaign for Black Lives Matter, which had such a meaningful impact all over the globe. A cruel killing of a black man in Minnesota sparked ...

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.