Headlines for October 28, 2024
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Monday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Martin de Porres, Religious
Today the Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Martin de Porres (1579-1639), who lived a life of fasting, prayer and penance as a Dominican lay brother. He was born in Peru of a Spanish knight and a Negro woman from Panama. Martin inherited the features and dark complexion of his mother, and for…
