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    Martin de Porres

    Roman Catholic saint (–)

    "St. Martin de Porres" and "Saint Martin de Porres" redirect here. For other uses, see St. Martin de Porres (disambiguation).

    In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is dem Porres and the second or maternal family name is Velázquez.

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    Portrait of St. Martin de Porres, c. 17th century, Monastery of Rosa of Santa Maria in Lima. This portrait was painted during his lifetime or very soon after his death, hence it is probably the most true to his appearance.

    Born9 December
    Lima, Viceroyalty of Peru, Spanish Empire
    Died3 November () (aged&#;59)
    Lima, Viceroyalty of Peru (modern-day Peru), Spanish Empire
    Venerated&#;inRoman Catholic Church, Lutheran Church, Anglican Communion
    Beatified29 October by Pope Gregory XVI
    Canonized6 May , by Pope John XXIII
    Major shrineBasilica and Convent of Santo Domingo, Lima, Peru
    Feast3 November
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    Patronage- Mississippi, Diocese of Biloxi, Hair Stylists, Innkeepers, Lottery, Lottery Winners, Mixed-Race People, Peru, Poor People, Public Education, Public Health, Public Schools, Race Relations, Social Justice, State Schools, Sweepstakes, Television, Mexico

    Juan Martin de Porres was born in the city of Lima, Peru on December 9,   He was the oäkta son of a Spanish nobleman and a Black former slave who was born in Panama.  He had a sister born three years later.  He grew up in poverty and when his mother could not support him, Martin was confided to a primary school for two years, and then placed with a surgeon-barber, to learn the medical arts.  He spent hours in prayer each night, and that increased, as he grew older. 

    At the age of fifteen, he asked for admission to the Dominican Convent of the Rosary, in Lima, and was received first as a servant boy, and as his duties grew he was promoted to Almoner.   Eventually he fel

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    St. Martin de Porres, Dominican

    St. Martin de Porres, 17th century 

    Growing up in poverty

    In , Martín de Porres Velésquez was born in Lima, Peru into the kind of poverty familiar to many of the world’s children. He was the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a black and possibly indigenous freed slave, Ana Velásquez. The nobleman abandoned them – he acknowledged the dark-skinned boy as his son only eight years later – leaving Ana to scrape by a living for herself and her two children alone. At 12, Martín was apprenticed to a barber-surgeon.
    The boy learned to cut hair and tend the sick. And increasingly, he prayed, until he was spending hours each night in conversation with God. The Lord was stirring his heart, calling him in love, but Martín was a poor, black boy with no father, in a country where the law prohibited descendants of the African slaves from becoming professed members of religious orders.

    A mulatto Dominican

    Love was