Martin de Porres
Martín de Porres Velázquez (9 December 1579 – 3 November 1639) was a Peruvian lay brother of the Dominican Order who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. He is the patron saint of mixed-r ...
(Juan Martin de Porres, 1579–1639) is a Peruvian Roman Catholic patron saint of mixed-race people and racial harmony, usually depicted holding a black scapular and capuce in iconography.
San, Saint or St. Martin de Porres may also refer to:
Places
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San Martín de Porres District
San Martín de Porres (SMP) is a district in Lima, Peru, located in the north area of the city. It is bordered by the Chillón River, marks its natural border with Ventanilla and Puente Piedra on the north; Callao on the west; Los Olivos, Co ...
, a district in Lima, Peru, located in the area known as ''Cono Norte''
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San Martín de Porres, Las Palmas, Panama
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San Martín de Porres, Santiago
San Martín de Porres is a corregimiento in Santiago District, Veraguas Province, Panama
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is borde ...
, Panama
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San Martin de Porres, Parañaque
San Martin de Porres is an administrative division in southern Metro Manila, the Philippines. It is an elongated barangay located in the northeast corner of Parañaque adjoining the areas of Bicutan in Taguig and northern Muntinlupa. It is uniqu ...
, the Philippines
Schools
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St Martin de Porres, Adelaide, an elementary school in Sheidow Park, South Australia, Australia
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St. Martin Secondary School, a high school under the separate school system in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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St Martin de Porres School (Ghana)
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University of San Martín de Porres
The University of San Martin de Porres (USMP) is a private nonprofit university located in the city of Lima, Peru. It was founded by the Dominican Order of the Catholic Church in 1962.
History The Dominican foundation: Pro Deo
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, Lima, Peru
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Central Saint Martins
Central Saint Martins is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, a public art university in London, England. The college offers full-time courses at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and a variety of short ...
, the College of Arts and Design of the University of the Arts London, United Kingdom
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Saint Martin's School of Art
Saint Martin's School of Art was an art school, art college in London, England. It offered foundation and degree level courses. It was established in 1854, initially under the aegis of the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Saint Martin's beca ...
, an art college that merged to form Central Saint Martins in 1989
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Cristo Rey St. Martin College Prep formerly St. Martin de Porres High School, a Catholic school in Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois, USA
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Saint Martin de Porres High School (Detroit)
Detroit St. Martin de Porres High School (short form: "Detroit DePorres", "DePorres", or "DP") was a co-educational college preparatory school in Detroit, Michigan and belonged to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit.
St. Martin de Porres ...
, a defunct school in Wayne County, Michigan, USA
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St. Martin de Porres High School (Cleveland), a school in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA
* St. Martin de Porres School, in Philadelphia. See
List of schools of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Other uses
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Church of St. Martin de Porres (Poughkeepsie, New York), a Roman Catholic parish church
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Club Deportivo Universidad de San Martín de Porres
Club Deportivo Universidad de San Martín de Porres S.A., commonly known as Club Deportivo USMP, is a Peruvian football club based in the city of Lima. The club was founded in 2004 as a Joint-stock company, the first in Peru. In just their first ...
, a football club based in Lima, Peru
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''Saint Martin de Porres'' (sculpture), a 1963 statue by Father Thomas McGlynn
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St. Martin de Porres Hospital, a Catholic hospital in Eikwe, Ghana
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San Martín de Porres (telenovela), a Mexican telenovela
See also
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Saint Martin (disambiguation) Saint Martin may refer to:
People
* Saint Martin of Tours (c. 316–397), Bishop of Tours, France
* Saint Martin of Braga (c. 520–580), archbishop of Bracara Augusta in Gallaecia (now Braga in Portugal)
* Pope Martin I (c. 595–655), bishop of R ...
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St Martin's School (disambiguation) St Martin's School or Saint Martin's School may refer to:
*Saint Martin's School of Art, a former art college in London, merged in 1989 into Central Saint Martins
* St Martin's School, Brentwood, a secondary school in Essex, England
* St Martins Sc ...
, other schools named Saint Martin
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