St. Martin de Porres (patron of social justice and racial harmony)
St. Martin de Porres
(patron of social justice & racial harmony)
Find a brief biography and a quote written by Saint Martin de Porres. The St. Martin de Porres Chaplet has traditional and unique prayers.
BIO OF SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES
The First Feast of St. Martin was on November 3, 1962
Saint Martin de Porres (Juan Maartin de Porres Velasquez) (1579-1639) was born in Lima, Peru. He was of mixed Spanish and African race, which was considered a stigma at the time. The Dominicans made an exception to accept a mixed-race individual into the order. St. Martin de Porres became a lay brother and helped care for the sick. Known as an apostle of charity, he was also devoted to the Eucharist, serving the poor, and constant prayer. Pope Gregory XVI beatified him on October 29, 1837. Pope John XXIII canonized him on May 6, 1962.
Everything, even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden, and waiting on the sick, could be a prayer if offered to God.
Saint Martin de Porres
Some Thoughts
What does it mean to offer it up? When we make an effort to do the little helpful things for others, it is kindness. It is a gift when we do it patiently and lovingly. When we offer it to God in thanksgiving and with the needs of others in our hearts, it is a prayer.
Our Lady of Grace Rosaries (November 3, 2020)
About Our Handmade Chaplets
Packaging
Each chaplet comes with a sturdy prayer card. It explains which prayers to say on which beads.
Suggestion
It is a good idea to store your chaplets and prayer cards together. Since chaplets have unique bead groupings and prayers, the prayer card and chaplet need to stay together so that you can continue to use them.
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CREDITS
The LOGO image of Our Lady of Grace is original artwork by Martin Lariviere in 2009. We have the artist’s permission (my son). It is our exclusive trademark logo image.
A beautifully photographed sky by Donald Tong inspired the website’s colour scheme. Cropped portions of it are the background for the footer Bible verse. He shared it as a free download on pexels.com.
Raphael painted The Sistine Madonna circa (1513-1514). We made circular cut-outs from the original image.
Pixabay shared the divider image for free. We added the theme colour to it.
Located in the Montserrat Chapel in the Seville Cathedral in Andalusia, Spain, is this painting on tiles of Saint Martin de Porres.
We used one of the most well-known quotes from St. Martin de Porres Velasquez.
Our information is from general knowledge, experience, and shared internet sources. We’d like you to use it as a starting point for your research to verify facts and build a reference list.
IN REVIEW
St. Martin de Porres was born in Lima, Peru. He was of mixed Spanish and African race, which was considered a stigma at the time. The Dominicans made an exception to accept a mixed-race individual into the order. He became a lay brother and helped care for the sick. He was devoted to the Eucharist, serving the poor, and prayer.
Pope Gregory XVI beatified St. Martin de Porres on October 29, 1837. Pope John XXIII canonized him on May 6, 1962.
The feast day of St. Martin de Porres is on November 3. Since he was canonized on May 6, 1962, his first feast day was later that year.