Martin de Porres

Martín de Porres Velázquez 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-race people, barbers, innkeepers, public health workers, all those seeking racial harmony, and animals.

9 December 1579

Born on the same birth day (9 December): Clarence Birdseye • Claude Louis Berthollet • Denise van Deventer • Geoff Barrow • Germain Gagnon • Jeff Petry • Jim Turnesa • Joseph Pilates • Leon Hall • Liaqat Baloch • Orville Moody • Peter Kropotkin • William Whiston