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Shares the story of how St. Martin de Porres, a Dominican brother living in sixteenth-century Peru, finds a peaceful solution to the priory's problem with mice.

An illustrated biography for children of St. Martin de Porres, canonized in 1962, the first black saint in the Americas, illegitimate child of a Spanish nobleman and a former slave, born in Lima, Peru in 1579, and educated in Ecuador as a barber/doctor, and describes his entrance into the Dominican Order and his life of service and healing.