St. Martin De Porres Research Paper

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St. Martin de Porres St.Martin de Porres was born at Lima, Peru, on December 9, 1579. When St. Martin was fifteen, he became a lay brother, (a person who has taken the vows of a religious order but is not ordained or obliged to take part in the full cycle of liturgy and is employed in ancillary or manual work) at the Dominican Friary at Lima and spent his whole life there-as a barber, farm laborer, almoner, and infirmarian among other things. St. Martin de Porres, died on November 3, 1639 and was canonized on May 6, 1962. His feast day is November 3. The most impressive thing about St. Martin de Porres was that his love was all-embracing, shown equally to humans, and to animals. He also maintained a cats and dogs hospital at his sister’s house. A virtue that St. Martin de Porres practiced and would like to emulate in my life was that he made a martyr out of his body, devoting himself endlessly, and severed penances. I chose St. Martin de Porres because he…show more content…
Martin de Porres was that he was known for his unique healing powers. An example of one of his healing miracles is when an 87 year old lady from Paraguay, was given a few hours to live. She several severe intestinal blockage and had suffered a heart attack. All the doctors had given up on her and were already making arrangements for her funeral the following day. However her daughter and some friends were praying to St. Martin and said 15 decades of the Rosary, asking above all through the intercessions of St. Martin that her mother would still be alive by the time she herself could reach her mother’s home in Paraguay. When she arrived at her mother’s house, a miracle occurred. Her mother had stopped the terrible vomiting at the time she was praying her 15 decades of the rosary, and had suddenly begun to improve. The improvement continued, resulting in a complete recovery so much that, two or three days later, the 87 year old was up and about as if nothing had happened to

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