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Martin de Porres

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Martin de Porres: see Porres, Saint Martin de Porres, Saint Martin de , 1579–1639, Peruvian Dominican lay brother, b. Lima. He was the son of a Spanish soldier and a black freedwoman from Panama. Apprenticed to a barber-surgeon, he later joined a monastery as a tertiary, or lay brother, in Lima and devoted
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