Title: St. Martín de Porres
First published: 1995
Description: The "little stories" and the traditions that grew up around St. Martin de Porres are fascinating in themselves, and every bit as charming as those told of St. Francis of Assisi. But as Garcia-Rivera shows in this book, these deceptively simple stories are equally the story of a submerged consciousness of resistance on the part of the marginalized peoples of Latin America.

For the first time, Garcia-Rivera "unpacks" these stories, using the semiotic method and insights garnered from the works of Robert Schreiter, Eugene Genovese, and Antonio Gramsci.
Subjects: Catholic Church, Christianity and culture, Latin America, Mestizaje, Religious life and customs, Theologie, Christian biography, Latin america, social conditions, Peru, biography
Places: Latin America
People: Martín de Porres, Saint (1579-1639)
LC classification: BX4700.M397 G37 1995