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Martín de Porres, Saint, 1579-1639

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Personal name headingMartín de Porres, Saint, 1579-1639
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Variant(s)De Porres, Juan Martín, 1579-1639
De Porres, Martín, Saint, 1579-1639
De Porres Velázquez, Juan Martín, 1579-1639
Martín de Porras, San, 1579-1639
Porres, Juan Martín de, 1579-1639
Porras, Martín de, San, 1579-1639
Porres, Martín de, Saint, 1579-1639
Porres, Martín de, San, 1579-1639
Porres Velázquez, Juan Martín de, 1579-1639
Velázquez, Juan Martín de Porres, 1579-1639
Associated countryPeru
Associated placeGuayaquil (Ecuador)
Birth date1579-12-09
Death date1639-11-03
Place of birthLima (Peru)
Place of deathLima (Peru)
AffiliationDominicans
Convento del Santísimo Rosario (Lima, Peru)
Profession or occupationPriests Barbers Medical personnel Saints Christian saints
Found inMeet 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)
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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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