Nov 3 - “St. Martin de Porres” © icon by Br. Robert Lentz, OFM. Happy Feast Day St. Martin!
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In this icon, St. Martin holds a cat and has several rats and mice at his feet. When his monastery was infested with rodents, he spoke with them and convinced them to move out of the buildings, into the garden. He fed them there and they lived peacefully with cats, dogs, and other animals that would ordinarily be enemies of one another.
The animals are symbolic on a deeper level. Martin was born scarcely 40 years after the bloody destruction of the Inca Empire. He was the unwanted child of a Spanish grandee and a freed African slave. In a society that was filled with conflict and injustice, Martin brought peace through compassion and generosity. In addition to doctoring Lima’s sick, he distributed thousands of dollars worth of food and clothing to the poor every week--all of which he had first begged from wealthy families.
His feast day is November 3.
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