Everything,
even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and waiting on
the sick could be a prayer, if it were offered to God.
– Saint
Martin de Porres
Saint
Martin de Porres'
patronage: African-Americans;
against rats; barbers; bi-racial people; hair stylists; hairdressers;
hotel-keepers; innkeepers; inter-racial justice; mixed-race people;
mulattoes; paupers; Peru; poor people; public education; public
health; public schools; race relations; racial harmony; social
justice; state schools; television.
