Porres

The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns one of his best-known paintings, "St. Martin de Porres," a 1983 work that depicts a Peruvian saint surrounded by a zoo's worth of tropical birds and beasts.

An Oddball Menagerie Kelly Crow 2011

This kind of real estate fits in with the fabric of the neighborhood, said Margaret Streicker Porres , of Newcastle Realty Services LLC, who's marketing a nine-unit renovation of historic 84 Bedford St. in the West Village, where units are priced from about $500,000 to $2 million.

The Incredible Shrinking Condo Project Laura Kusisto 2011

At this time, the 3: 00 Mass at St Martin de Porres in Jensen Beach continues to be the only regular EF Mass in the diocese, but Fr. Nelson and the schola hope to offer the Traditional Latin Mass and chanted Vespers as often as possible.

New Image for Palm Beach 2009

She volunteers at St. Martin de Porres, a Catholic elementary school in Oakland, Calif., where she helps the children mostly black and Hispanic with their kindergarten violin class, piano lessons and a gospel choir, brings in performers and takes older students to opera rehearsals.

Singing Into Retirement David Littlejohn 2012

The couple and other families who are members of St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church said they will try to collect donations to send through the American Red Cross to Haiti.

Quake's toll felt heavily in USA 2010

"We of course are very upset about this, and we think it's a very unfortunate event," Sofia Porres of the Guatemalan Embassy in Washington said in a telephone interview.

U.S. apologizes for newly revealed syphilis experiments done in Guatemala Rob Stein 2010

Martin de Porres lived in Peru in the late-sixteenth to early-seventeenth century.

Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire 2010

November bears feasts of two St. Martins, today is the optional memorial of the lesser-known St. Martin, St. Martin de Porres.

Archive 2008-11-01 Mary 2008

November bears feasts of two St. Martins, today is the optional memorial of the lesser-known St. Martin, St. Martin de Porres.

St. Martin's Mice Jennifer Gregory Miller 2008

Around that time, it became known that the Catholic Church would elevate the first black to sainthood: Martin de Porres, a sixteenth-century Peruvian.

THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007