Martin de Porres


Martin de Porres:

see Porres, Saint Martin dePorres, Saint Martin de
, 1579–1639, Peruvian Dominican lay brother, b. Lima. He was the son of a Spanish soldier and a black freedwoman from Panama. Apprenticed to a barber-surgeon, he later joined a monastery as a tertiary, or lay brother, in Lima and devoted himself
..... Click the link for more information. .