On Nov. 3 the Roman Catholic Church celebrates St. Martin de Porres, a Peruvian Dominican brother whose life of charity and devotion led to his canonization as the first black saint of the Americas.
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 abandoned ...
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