Lad of Lima Author:Mary Fabvan Windeatt Events that had nothing to do with Blessed Martin de Porres are giving him new importance. It is clear that the old relation to White and Colored cannot continue: no one knows what changes there may be, but at least there wil be changes. — catholics above all should help to shape them, and of all Catholics, the children should have their minds ... more »and emotions clarified and made straight. Martin de Porres was a Negro, he is beatified, and no white child will read this story of him without feeling that in comparison with Martin's moral and spiritual superiority his own lighter complexion is a mere irrlevance« less