St. Martin de Porres
by Brenda Nippert
Title
St. Martin de Porres
Artist
Brenda Nippert
Medium
Painting - Painting
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Martin was born in Lima, Peru as the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a freed slave woman from Panama. Since he favored his mother's black features, his father didn't acknowledge him. He grew up in poverty, with only 2 years of school. At 15, he entered a Dominican convent as a servant boy. He spent hours in prayer and soon his holiness became evident. Eventually, he became a full Dominican brother in spite of racial limits. When the order was in serious debt, Martin begged his superiors to sell him as a slave. They knew he was worth well more than his weight in gold, so they declined his offer. Martin was then put in charge of the infirmary, and before long, healing miracles began.
He was a friend of Saint Rose of Lima, and the two supported each other with prayer and friendship. Even down to the mice that invaded the convent pantry, Martin had a great love for every living thing and constantly promoted peace among God's creatures. As an illegitimate, mixed race, poor man in the 17th Century, he would normally have been beaten down by his status. Instead, Martin rose above it and lived by the teachings of Christ, not the ways of the world. He demonstrated the unstoppable power of love over prejudice. By society's standards, he was nothing, yet when Martin died, he was already known as a Saint and the entire city was proud to call him one of their own.
His feast day is November 3.
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January 27th, 2018
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