St. Martín de Porres distributed food and alms, ministered to enslaved Africans, raised dowries for poor girls, and established a school for youth in Lima. He became an apprentice to a barber-surgeon, where he learned medicine and nursing and eventually applied these skills to care for the sick and injured in the Dominican infirmary, as well as those living outside the religious order’s monastery.
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