Martin de Porres, Hero
By: Illustrated by Jean Charlot.
Contributors: Charlot, Jean, illus.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1954
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Martín, de Porres, Saint, 1579-1639.
Description: The life story of the Spanish-Negro, the Dominican lay brother and medical assistant of 16th century Lima, Peru. Martin devoted his life to teaching and helping the poor. He was beatified in 1837, almost one hundred years after his death.