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The Life And Legacy Of saint Martin De Porres: A Man Who Offered Himself for Sale to Save His Brothers

The Life And Legacy Of saint Martin De Porres: A Man Who Offered Himself for Sale to Save His Brothers

Historia, Sancta

Paperback

Religious BiographiesCatholicismChristian Living

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ISBN13: 9798177981222
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if the child the world called nobody was the one heaven had been watching all along?

He was born in a poor room in Lima, Peru, in 1579. The baptismal record said father unknown. The children on the street called him names. The law said he could never become a full member of a religious order. Yet by the time he died, the whole city came to his door and called him a saint.

This is his story, told in his own voice.

Written in the first person as though Saint Martin de Porres himself were sitting beside you, this book walks you through colonial Lima and into the moments that shaped him. You will stand with him in the apothecary's shop where he learned to heal. You will kneel with him in the priory where he swept floats for nine years and kissed the feet of the priest who mocked him. You will follow him into the infirmary where he carried a beggar covered in ulcers to his own bed and spoke the words that still echo today: Compassion is preferred to cleanliness.

Inside you will discover:

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