Girolamo Savonarola (1452-98), was born in Ferrara, in Northern Italy. He became a Dominican Friar and preached religious, political and ecclesiastical reform in Renaissance, Florence. With this agenda he could not avoid making enemies in high places. Through the intervening…
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On May 16, 1962, Pope John XXIII, in a ceremony at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, made Martin de Porres the first black American saint. Martin was born on December 9, 1579, in Lima, Peru, the illegitimate son of Don…
