| LC control no. | n 50080634 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Martín, de Porres, Saint, 1579-1639 |
| Variant(s) | De Porres Martín, Saint, 1579-1639 Martín, de Porras, Saint, 1579-1639 Porras, Martín de, Saint, 1579-1639 Porres, Martín de, Saint, 1579-1639 Porres, Juan Martín de, 1579-1639 De Porres, Juan Martín, 1579-1639 Porres Velázquez, Juan Martín de, 1579-1639 De Porres Velázquez, Juan Martín, 1579-1639 Velázquez, Juan Martín de Porres, 1579-1639 |
| Associated place | Guayaquil (Ecuador) |
| Birth date | 1579-12-09 |
| Death date | 1639-11-03 |
| Place of birth | Lima (Peru) |
| Place of death | Lima (Peru) |
| Affiliation | Dominicans Convento del Santísimo Rosario (Lima, Peru) |
| Profession or occupation | Priest Barber Saint Health worker |
| Found in | Meet brother Martin ... 1936. St. Martin de Porres, 1962. Collier's Enc. (Martin de Porres, St. (1579-1639)) Enc. Brit, 15th ed. (Porres, San Martín de, b. 1579, d. 11-3-1639; Peruvian national patron of social justice) Enc. univ. illus. (Martín de Porres, Beato, b. 1569, d. 11-5-1639) San Martín de Porras, 1992 Catholic Online (Project of Your Catholic Voice Foundation) (Saint Martin de Porres; born December 9, 1579 in Lima, Peru; feast day is November 3; patron of mixed race, barbers, public health workers, and innkeepers; illegitimate son to a Spanish gentlemen and a freed slave from Panama, of African or possibly Native American descent; at a young age, Martin's father abandoned him, his mother and his younger sister, leaving Martin to grow up in deep poverty; after spending just two years in primary school, he was placed with a barber/surgeon where he would learn to cut hair and the medical arts; when he was 15, he asked for admission into the Dominican Convent of the Rosary in Lima and was received as a servant boy and eventually was moved up to the church officer in charge of distributing money to deserving poor; became a Dominican lay brother in 1603 at the age of 24; ten years later, after he had been presented with the religious habit of a lay brother, Martin was assigned to the infirmary where he would remain in charge until his death on November 3, 1639 at the Dominican Convent of the Rosary; beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI; canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII) <https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=306> Encyclopedia.com website, May 13, 2021: (Martín De Porres; born December 9, 1579; died November 3, 1639; Peruvian saint; Porres was the son of a union between Juan de Porres, knight of the Order of Calatrava, and Ana Velázquez, his black servant from Panama; was educated in Guayaquil; family moved back to Lima when he was a boy; source: Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture) <https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/porres-martin-de-1579-1639> Encyclopaedia Britannica' website, May 13, 2021: (St. Martín de Porres; Juan Martín de Porres Velázquez; born 1579, Lima, Peru; died November 3, 1639, Lima; canonized 1962; feast day November 3; Peruvian friar noted for his kindness, his nursing of the sick, his obedience, and his charity; patron saint of social justice, racial harmony, and mixed-race people) <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Martin-de-Porres> |
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