Overview
- Today, Monday, November 3, 2025, the Church commemorates the Peruvian Dominican widely known as the “saint of the broom.”
- Born in Lima to the Spaniard Juan de Porres and the Panamanian Ana Velázquez, he joined the Dominican community as a lay brother after an initial rejection in his youth.
- He taught and cared for beggars, Indigenous people, enslaved persons and orphans, founding the Asilo y Escuela de Santa Cruz with support from nobles.
- Accounts attribute to him healing, prophecy and bilocation in service to the poor; he died on November 3, 1639, and was canonized by Pope John XXIII in 1962.
- El Norte de Castilla publishes the full santoral for the day, while La Nación highlights his patronage of social justice, the poor, the sick and several caregiving trades.