National Catholic Register

St. Martin de Porres Walked Through Walls — and Into Our Lives on the Day My Father Died

My mother, Gerardine Ann Frawley, a former publisher of the Register, was just 21 when she began her life-long devotion to St. Martin de Porres. And though the 17th-century mixed-race Dominican from ...
WKRG

HISTORY HONORED: 75th anniversary celebration for St. Martin de Porres Hospital, now Allen Health and Rehabilitation

UPDATE (5/17, 8:08 p.m.) — Community members gathered for the 75 th anniversary of the establishment of St. Martin De Porres Hospital in Mobile. “It’s a homegoing,” Executive Director of Allen Health ...
National Catholic Register

Meet the Most Recent American Black Catholic on the Road to Sainthood

A Black American priest who left his country because prejudice wouldn’t allow him to practice his ministry in the United States is ironically the seventh and most recent African American to be ...
The Times Herald

Rev. Gus Puleo: Saint Martin de Porres, the saint of social justice

Saint Martin de Porres was born in Lima, Peru in 1579 to Don Juan de Porres, a Spanish nobleman, and Ana Velasquez, a freed daughter of slaves from Panama. At a very young age, his father abandoned ...
The State Journal-Register

'The face of St. Martin de Porres Center,' Patricia Benanti, is SJ-R First Citizen

Patricia Benanti of Springfield has volunteered at St. Martin de Porres Center for nearly 25 years. A great part of her motivation to help people in need with donations of food, clothing, and other ...