Martin de Porres: The Rose in the Desert (Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Honorable Mention)
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0547612184
ISBN 13
9780547612188
Category
storyline
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Publication Year
2012
Publisher
Pages
32
Description
2013 Pura Belpre Award for IllustrationAs the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a former slave, Martin de Porres was born into extreme poverty. Even so, his mother begged the church fathers to allow him into the priesthood. Instead, Martin was accepted as a servant boy. But soon, the young man was performing miracles. Rumors began to fly around the city of a strange mulatto boy with healing hands, who gave first to the people of the barrios. Martin continued to serve in the church, until he was finally received by the Dominican Order, no longer called the worthless son of a slave, but rather a saint and the rose in the desert. - from Amzon
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2
