Martin de Porres: Episode Four

The Saints

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🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Lima, Peru. 1603. Despite the law prohibiting non-whites from entering religious orders, Martin has finally become a lay brother of the Dominican Order. But as he stands on the threshold of professing his solemn vows, a question hangs in the air: is the city of Lima, divided by racial prejudice and poverty, open to the blessings of a mixed-race friar?

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Martin de Porres’s story teaches lessons of faith, justice, and mercy. Martin’s natural compassion leads him to caring especially for animals, from feeding a stray dog as a child to miraculously convincing an infestation of rats to leave the priory. Martin’s sacrificial spirit makes him willing to sacrifice himself for the sake of his brothers. Martin’s life demonstrates how we are called to exercise true charity in a broken world.
This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. It portrays some characters’ racial animus and discrimination on the basis of race. Martin’s father, a prominent diplomat, refuses to acknowledge his mixed-race children or marry their mother. Martin is separated from his mother. Martin is verbally abused because of his heritage. Martin is initially refused entry to the monastery, but he perseveres. Martin offers to sell himself into slavery to pay off the monastery’s debts.

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0:00.0	Lima, Peru, 1603.
0:03.0	Despite the law prohibiting non-whites from entering religious orders, Martin has finally become a lay brother of the Dominican order.
0:12.0	But as he stands on the threshold of professing his solemn vows, a question hangs in the air.
0:19.0	Is the city of Lima, divided by racial prejudice and poverty
0:22.8	open to the blessings of a mixed-race friar?
0:32.1	The Saints
0:33.4	Adventures of Faith and Courage
0:36.4	Martin DePoras.
0:39.1	Episode 4, The Famous Friar.
0:42.5	Listen to all the episodes and discover new shows at the Saintspodcast.com.
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1:07.6	In nomine Patrice, and it, and spiritus sancti.
1:14.6	Amen.
1:17.6	Brothers, we gather to witness the profession of solemn vows by our beloved Martin.
1:25.6	I can't believe this is happening.
1:30.3	Shh!
1:31.3	I vow to live in poverty, owning nothing, that I may better serve the poor.
1:39.3	I vow to live in chastity, that my heart may be undivided in his devotion to God and his people.
1:45.0	And I vow obedience, submitting myself to God's will and the guidance of my superiors.
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