Martin De Porres: The Rose in the Desert (Pura Belpre Award Winner - Illustration)
by Schmidt, Gary D
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- ISBN 10
- 0547612184
- ISBN 13
- 9780547612188
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Synopsis
2013 Pura Belpre Award for Illustration As the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a former slave, Martin de Porres was born into extreme poverty. Even so, his mother begged the church fathers to allow him into the priesthood. Instead, Martin was accepted as a servant boy. But soon, the young man was performing miracles. Rumors began to fly around the city of a strange mulatto boy with healing hands, who gave first to the people of the barrios . Martin continued to serve in the church, until he was finally received by the Dominican Order, no longer called the worthless son of a slave, but rather a saint and the rose in the desert.
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- BookCorner COM LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52YZZZ00161J_ns
- Title
- Martin De Porres: The Rose in the Desert (Pura Belpre Award Winner - Illustration)
- Author
- Schmidt, Gary D
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardback - picture book
- ISBN 10
- 0547612184
- ISBN 13
- 9780547612188
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- This edition first published
- 2012-06-26