San Martin de Porres was born in 1579 in Lima, Peru to a Spanish nobleman and a freed black slave woman. He received a Christian education from his mother and entered the Dominican order in 1594, where he worked as a surgeon, barber, and clothes collector, caring for the poor and teaching Christianity. He was attributed with supernatural powers like controlling plants and animals as well as bilocation. When he died in 1639, he began to be venerated and was canonized as the patron saint of social justice in 1962 by Pope John XXIII.

1. SAN MARTIN DE PORRES
San Martin de Porres was born in Lima, on December 9th, 1579.
San martin de Porres was son of Spanish of the
Alcantara order, Don Juan de Porres, native from
Burgos city. And the free black woman, Ana
Velasquez, native from Panama, but she lived in
Lima.
Ana Velasquez gave careful christian education to
her son
San Martin de Porres lived in Guayaquil in 1585,
with his father, but went back to Lima because he
was rejected by his father's relatives.
Because he was lack of money, he didn´t study.

2. Martin started his learning of apothecary in Mateo pastor's house. Also he studied
surgery.
In 1594, Martin entered to Santo Domingo de Guzman order. He was admitted as a
brother of the order in 1603.
In the convent, he was barber, clothes collector, surgeon
and dentist. Martin took care of patients especially the
poor and needy. He constantly worked his pastoral and
missionary vocation, he taught the christian doctrine and
faith to Jesus to black men and indians.
He founded the Santa Cruz asylum and school, to reunite
all vague, orphans and beggars, and help them out of
their precarious situation.
He was attributed control of nature, the plants germinated before of time and animals
followed his commands. One of the most famous episodes of his life is he got that a
dog, a cat and a mouse ate in the same plate in complete harmony.

3. He was attributed the gift of the He was also attributed the gift of the
bilocation. Without leaving Lima, he cure. He used to say " I cure you, God
was seen in Mexico, Africa, China and save you“. Other of the faculties which
Japan, encouraging to the missionaries. had was the clairvoyance.
When he was sixty, he felt sick. He died in Lima, on November 3rd , 1639.
In 1660, archbishop of Lima, Pedro Villagomez,
started the search of miracles and qualities of
San Martin to promote his beatification. San
Martin was beatified in 1837 by the Pope
Gregory XVI .
The Pope John XXIII felt admiration for San
Martin. He canonized San Martin de Porres, on
May 6th, 1962 with the name “Patron of the
social justice“.
His festivity is celebrate on November 3rd , date of
his birth.