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Martin de Porres: The Rose in the Desert

Martin de Porres: The Rose in the Desert

Schmidt, Gary D.
Diaz, David

Hardcover

Series: Pura Belpre Award Winner - Illustration

BiographyHistoryReligion

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0547612184
ISBN13: 9780547612188
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: Jun 26 2012
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.55 Width: 9.30 Depth: 10.74
Language: English
Awards: Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature, Pura Belpre Award

2013 Pura Belpre Award for Illustration

As the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a former slave, Martin de Porres was born into extreme poverty. Even so, his mother begged the church fathers to allow him into the priesthood. Instead, Martin was accepted as a servant boy. But soon, the young man was performing miracles. Rumors began to fly around the city of a strange mulatto boy with healing hands, who gave first to the people of the barrios. Martin continued to serve in the church, until he was finally received by the Dominican Order, no longer called the worthless son of a slave, but rather a saint and the rose in the desert.

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