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    Saint Martin de Porres
    Saint Martin de Porres
    Saint Martin de Porres
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    Saint Martin de Porres

    By Bob Lord and Penny Lord

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    It’s hard to describe all the charisms of St. Martin de Porres, or cover all the gifts he received from the Lord. The more we read about him, the more we realize what a powerful instrument of God he was. He had the gifts of bilocation, healing, multiplication of food, reading men’s minds, raising the dead, levitation, ecstasy, visions, inner locution; it goes on and on. Martin de Porres was one of the most powerful and yet one of the gentlest Saints in the history of our Church, and without doubt, a true disciple of the Lord in the New World. We will try to give you just a taste of how the Lord worked in this hemisphere through this Saint.
    Martin was born in 1579, in Lima, Peru. It was only 83 years after Columbus placed a small Spanish flag on the island of San Salvador, claiming it and the entire new world for the Catholic Queen, Isabella, as it was she who had financed this expedition in thanksgiving to God for deliverance of Spain from the Moors. In 1535, the city of Lima was founded, and in 1551, the Dominicans Saint Martin de Porres began a university there.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJourneys of Faith
    Release dateApr 4, 2011
    ISBN9781458000798
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    Bob Lord

    Bob and Penny Lord renowned Catholic Authors and hosts on EWTN. They are best known for their media on Miracles of the Eucharist and Many Faces of Mary. They have been dubbed experts on the Catholic Saints. They produced over 200 television programs for EWTN global television network and wrote over 25 books and hundreds of ebooks.

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      Saint Martin de Porres - Bob Lord

      Saint Martin de Porres

      Bob and Penny Lord

      Published by Bob and Penny Lord at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011 Bob and Penny Lord

      Discover other titles by Bob and Penny Lord at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/bobandpennylord

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashword.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the author.

      Saint Martin de Porres

      Apostle of Charity,

      Saint of the Slaves

      The Holy Spirit is so powerful; He works in marvelous ways. We began the chapters on St. Martin de Porres and St. Rose of Lima on the Feast Day of St. Toribio de Mongrevo, who baptized St. Rose. He was the Archbishop of Lima, Peru and had a tremendous effect on the spirituality of St. Rose of Lima and St. Martin. The lives of these three Saints of Lima, Peru are strongly interwoven.

      Although this is not an account of the life of St. Dominic, the father-in-faith of Saints Rose and Martin, a special tribute has to be paid to this great Watchdog of God.1 St. Dominic was a powerhouse during his lifetime, a true defender of the Church, a watchdog of God. His followers have been commissioned and mandated to be an order of Preachers, to bring the word of God to the whole world and as part of that commitment, to defend the Church in the name of God against her enemies. The two Dominicans we have written about in this book (as well as St. Catherine of Siena, the role model of St. Rose of Lima), truly followed in the footsteps and charism of their founder, St. Dominic.

      This is how the Lord works. He never leaves us alone. He doesn’t just give us one Saint, one powerful man and woman in a period of crisis, but we find ourselves leaning on many of the brothers and sisters who came before us. The whole foundation of our Church lifts us up. We feel their strength behind us, as we encounter attacks from the enemy, experiencing uncertainty about whether we’re doing what the Lord wants, or what we want, in our everyday struggles, and what path we are to take to the Kingdom. Martin de Porres was to lean on his brothers and sisters in Christ, especially those children of St. Dominic.

      Martin has been given many titles over the years including Apostle of Charity, Saint of the Slaves, Patron of the Negroes, Patron of Social Justice, and others, all true, all describing one or more of his attributes, but none actually goes to the heart of who this Saint was. He was love; he was Christian; he was truly son of the Father,

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