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Saint Martin de Porres 15" High - Vintage
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A beautiful figure of one of the most famous saint of Peru. St. Martin de Porres carved of lightweight wood from South America in the early 50's so this statue is over 50 years old. It was stored for 39 years so it shows it is in museum condition and has retained its original colors with slight patina. The age shows from under the base. It is 15 inches tall and weighs 0.51 lbs.
St. Martin de Porres was born at Lima, Peru, in 1579. His father was a Spanish gentleman and his mother a coloured freed-woman from Panama. At fifteen, he became a lay brother at the Dominican Friary at Lima and spent his whole life there-as a barber, farm laborer, almoner, and infirmarian among other things.
St. Martin's love was all-embracing, shown equally to humans and to animals, including vermin, and he maintained a cats and dogs hospital at his sister's house. He also possessed spiritual wisdom, demonstrated in his solving his sister's marriage problems, raising a dowry for his niece inside of three day's time, and resolving theological problems for the learned of his Order and for bishops. A close friend of St. Rose of Lima, this saintly man died on November 3, 1639 and was canonized on May 6, 1962. His feast day is November 3.
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