Martin de Porres O.P. (December 9 1579 – November 3 1639) was a lay brother of the Dominican Order who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. He is the patron saint of mixed-race people and all those seeking interracial harmony.He was noted for work on behalf of the poor establishing an orphanage and a children’s hospital. He maintained an austere lifestyle which included fasting and abstaining from meat.
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