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 ...
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.
Black Catholic Month kicked off in Philadelphia on Sunday and included a tribute to a South American saint at the St. Raymond of Penafort Church, 1350 Vernon Road in the Mt. Airy section. The ...
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