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St. Martin De Porres (Icon) by Robert Lentz | Catholic Icons
St. Martin De Porres Icon | by Robert Lentz
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St.
Martin De Porres (Icon)
by Robert Lentz
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Mounted
on 4.5x6 inch Wooden Plaque
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Martin
de Porres was the unwanted child of a Spanish Grandee and a freed
African slave. He was born in Lima, Peru scarcely forty years after the
bloody destruction of the Inca Empire.
He raised himself, for the most part, and became an apprentice to a
barber-surgeon so the he would have a trade. At fifteen, he began his
long relationship with the Dominican Order, first as a tertiary and
then as a brother with vows.
His painful childhood taught him compassion and generosity. As a
Dominican he doctored Lima’s sick. While surgery was primitive in his
day, he had a vast knowledge of herbal medicines.
With herbs he treated illnesses ranging from infections and fevers to
intestinal ailments and sprains. In addition to his free services as a
doctor, he distributed thousands of dollars worth of food and clothing
to the poor each week -- all of which he had first begged from wealthy
families.
He founded an orphanage for abandoned children and staffed it with the
best teachers, nurses and guardians he could hire. On the hills near
Lima, he planted fruit orchards for the poor. He is also remembered for
his love of animals.
He wore the oldest, most patched garments he could find, and spent long
hours in prayer. Other Dominicans sometimes found him suspended in the
air many feet above the church floor, in ecstatic prayer before the
large crucifix.
During his lifetime he was called the "flying brother," because of the
many times he bilocated in distant places like the Philippines, Japan,
or North Africa, and was seen there by Peruvian merchants who knew him.
He was also gifted with prophecy and clairvoyance.
He died at the age of sixty, during a severe fever. His beloved poor
never allowed his memory to fade, and today he is one of the most
popular saints of the Americas.
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