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 ...

LIMA, Peru — A new reconstruction of the face of St. Martin de Porres reveals the face of the Dominican brother as he was in life, as well as his physical suffering: The saint had trouble ...

Patricia Benanti of Springfield has volunteered at St. Martin de Porres Center for nearly 25 years. A great part of her motivation to help people in need with donations of food, clothing ...

My mother, Gerardine Ann Frawley, a former publisher of the Register, was just 21 when she began her life-long devotion to St. Martin de Porres. And though the 17th-century mixed-race Dominican ...

UPDATE (5/17, 8:08 p.m.) — Community members gathered for the 75 th anniversary of the establishment of St. Martin De Porres Hospital in Mobile. “It’s a homegoing,” Executive Director ...