Martin de Porres: Episode One

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Martin De Porres - Episode One: A Humble Heart Lima, Peru. 1579. In the Spanish colony, a society fractures along race and class lines. Natives and African slaves toil while Spanish elites prosper. From these dusty streets, a mixed-race hero eme…

Martin de Porres: Episode Two

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Martin De Porres - Episode Two: Called to Serve Lima, Peru. 1594. Five years have passed and Martin has returned to Lima, the capital of Peru. Before his mother died, she got him a job as an apprentice to a barber-surgeon. But Martin's heart bur…

Martin de Porres: Episode Three

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Martin De Porres - Episode Three: Compassion Above Everything Lima, Peru. 1603. Eight years have passed since Martin was accepted as a servant in the Dominican monastery of Lima. While he finds joy in serving both the friars and the poor, whispe…

Martin de Porres: Episode Four

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Martin De Porres - Episode Four: The Famous Friar Lima, Peru. 1603. Despite the law prohibiting non-whites from entering religious orders, Martin has finally become a lay brother of the Dominican Order. But as he stands on the threshold of profe…

Martin de Porres: Episode Five

🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage 🗺️ Martin De Porres - Episode Five: God’s Servant Lima, Peru. The Dominican Monastery is deeply in debt, and the moneylenders have sent their workers to seize the friars’ belongings to cover what they owe. Upon learning of this, Fray Martin makes a…