RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Martin de Porres

1579 - 1639

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Martín de Porres Velázquez (9 December 1579 – 3 November 1639) was a Peruvian lay brother of the Dominican Order who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. He is the patron saint of mixed-race people, barbers, innkeepers, public health workers, all those seeking racial harmony, and animals. He was noted for his work on behalf of the poor, establishing an orphanage and a children's hospital. He maintained an austere lifestyle, which included fasting and abstaining from meat. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin de Porres has received more than 1,270,763 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Martin de Porres is the 699th most popular religious figure (down from 697th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Peru (up from 16th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Peruvian Religious Figure.

Martin de Porres was a Dominican friar, and is most famous for being the first person of African descent to be declared a saint.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Martin de Porres ranks 699 out of 3,187. Before him are Abdullah ibn Saba', Abe no Seimei, Scholastica, 6th Dalai Lama, Pancras of Rome, and Lydia of Thyatira. After him are Gertrude the Great, Antipas of Pergamum, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Abdullah ibn Salam, Epiphanius of Salamis, and Thomas Wolsey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1579, Martin de Porres ranks 2. Before him is Tirso de Molina. After him are Tokugawa Hidetada, Frans Snyders, Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues, Carlo Saraceni, Jens Munk, John Fletcher, Juan Pablo Bonet, Marie of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and Johannes Meursius. Among people deceased in 1639, Martin de Porres ranks 3. Before him are Mustafa I, and Tommaso Campanella. After him are Orazio Gentileschi, Roelant Savery, Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, Stefano Landi, Martin Opitz, Augusta of Denmark, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Johann Philipp, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, and John Ford.

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In Peru

Among people born in Peru, Martin de Porres ranks 15 out of 287. Before him are Manco Cápac (1250), Rose of Lima (1586), Pachacuti (1380), Túpac Amaru II (1738), Yma Sumac (1923), and Manco Inca Yupanqui (1512). After him are Huáscar (1490), Topa Inca Yupanqui (1441), Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539), Viracocha Inca (1310), Teófilo Cubillas (1949), and Abimael Guzmán (1934).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Peru

Among religious figures born in Peru, Martin de Porres ranks 3. Before him are Manco Cápac (1250), and Rose of Lima (1586). After him are Sinchi Roca (1230), Mayta Cápac (1290), Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne (1943), Pedro Barreto (1944), and Juan Guevara (1882).

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