Martin de Porres: The Rose in the Desert (Pura Belpre Award Winner - Illustration)

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UPC:
9780547612188
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
6/26/2012
Release Date:
6/26/2012
Author:
Gary D. Schmidt
Language:
english
Edition:
First Edition

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2013 Pura Belpre Award for Illustration

As 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 calledthe worthless son of a slave, butrather a saint and the rose in the desert.

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