Optional Memorial
Saint Martin de Porres
- Feast day
- November 03
- Patron of
- mixed-race people, barbers, and social justice
- Origin
- Peruvian
Life
Martin de Porres was a Dominican lay brother of mixed African and Spanish descent in Lima. Despite racial prejudice, his holiness, healing gifts, and charity made him beloved by all classes of society.
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