2011年10月17日星期一

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Saint Martin de Porres 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, brother of the Son, and vessel of the Holy Spirit.
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 bi-location, healing, multiplication of food, reading mens minds, raising the dead, levitation, ecstasy, visions, inner locution; christian louboutin shoes-pumps 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 de Porres was born in 1579, in Lima, Peru. Christian Louboutin pumps 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, since 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 began a university there. The Dominicans were the first religious order to preach the gospel in Peru.
Martin de Porres was born of John de Porres, a Spanish nobleman and Knight of the Order of Alcantara, and a black free woman, Anna Velazquez. Martin's father was not very happy to find his child was black. He did not want to be connected with the child in any way Christian Louboutin discount. As a matter of fact, on the baptismal record there was no mention of the father at all. The Baptismal certificates read only "Martin, son of an unknown father." But some years later, he officially acknowledged Martin as being his son. We're not sure if John ever married Anna Velazquez. If he did, he didn't treat her very well. He spent most of his time in other countries, leaving Anna and the children, Martin and his sister Joan to fend for themselves Christian Louboutin cheap. Though Martin was not from a poor background, you would not have known it by the way he and his family lived. His family never had much.

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