The Life and Afterlife of Fray Martín de Porres, - download pdf or read online

By Celia L. Cussen

In may well 1962, because the fight for civil rights heated up within the usa and leaders of the Catholic Church ready to fulfill for Vatican Council II, Pope John XXIII named the 1st black saint of the Americas, the Peruvian Martín de Porres (1579–1639), and distinct him the shopper of racial justice. The son of a Spanish father and a former slavewoman from Panamá, Martín served an entire life because the barber and nurse on the nice Dominican monastery in Lima. This ebook attracts on visible representations of Martín and the testimony of his contemporaries to provide the 1st biography of this pious and industrious black guy from the cosmopolitan capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru. The ebook vividly chronicles the evolving interpretations of his legend and his miracles, and strains the centuries-long crusade to officially proclaim Martín de Porres a hero of common Catholicism.

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