VA317211655495St Martin de Porres Medal

St. Martin de Porres Medal is the patron saint of social justice and mixed races. He showed equality to humans and animals alike. His love, like that of Christ was all embracing.

St. Martin de Porres is the patron saint of Bi-racial People. Martin de Porres was born in Peru in 1579. He is especially associated with racial harmony and public services such as schooling and health. His patronage of multi-racial people is associated with the fact that he was the illicit son of a Spanish nobleman and a freed African-American slave.