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Martin (1579-1639)

Peruvian social reformer. He became a Dominican in 1603. His powers of healing, his saintly personal life, and his work among the poor and outcast established him as a pioneer social worker. He was beatified by Gregory XVI (1837), and canonized by John XXIII (1962).

He was born in Lima, Peru. His father was Don Juan de Porres, a Spanish knight, and his mother was Anna Velazquez, a woman from Panama.

Martin

City in Weakley County, northwestern Tennessee, situated on Cane Creek, 21 km/13 mi east-southeast of Union City; population (1990) 8,600. Martin lies in an area known for market gardening, tobacco growing, and dairy farming. A campus of the University of Tennessee (founded 1927) is located in the city.
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"Ma," she shouted suddenly, in her shrill, strident treble, "I see Martin comin'.
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The effect that Keggs, the butler at the Keiths', had on Martin Rossiter was to make him feel as if he had been caught laughing in a cathedral.
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Departing this life as Admiral of the Fleet on the eve of the Crimean War, Sir Thomas Byam Martin has recorded for us amongst his all too short autobiographical notes these few characteristic words uttered by one young man of the many who must have felt that particular inconvenience of a heroic age.
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