St. Martin de Porres

Description

The sons of St. Dominic were the first to preach the Gospel in the land of the Incas. They had shared the perils of the Peruvian adventure with Pizarro in the same boat in which he and his men sailed south through the Pacific. Missionaries of many other orders followed them: Franciscans, Augustinians, Mercedarians, Jesuits. But divine Providence reserved for the first missionary workers the finest fruits of the seed of the Gospel sown between the seacoast and the forbidding heights of the Andes.

He was "a very notable case" of agility; cf. Teología de la perfección cristiana pp. 940-1.

Brazilian 3D designer Cícero Moraes has done a very neat forensic facial reconstruction of St. Martin de Pores. He used Blender and other open-source software.

KOReader notes:

Chapter 1

01/07/25Chapter 1 : 16

In 1551 the Dominicans founded a university there, the University of St. Mark, the first to be established in all the territory of the two Americas.

Chapter 10

01/14/25Chapter 10 : 123

In a family the problem of the training of the young is relatively simple because of the restricted number involved and the close affinity between the members of the family. But the problem is very complex in a religious community, where subjects who must be raised to a higher plane of life are accepted with wide differences in origin, habits and characters

homeschooling

Chapter 11

01/15/25Chapter 11 : 144

the soul seeks suffering out of hatred for its own vileness

Chapter 12

01/16/25Chapter 12 : 173

In his commentary on the words of Jesus, “Whoever does the will of My Father in Heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother” (Matt. 12:50), St. Gregory says, “Whoever believes can be considered the brother and sister of Christ, but he becomes His mother if he is a means of generating the love of God in the heart of his neighbor.”22

Chapter 14

01/19/25Chapter 14 : 203

Anyone who does not possess it will try to model everyone on his own pattern; “with the same weight that he weighs, he will try to weigh everyone,” and will reduce the almost infinite variety of the spiritual world to the monotony of his own personal standard.13