Martin de Porres Ward
Priest
Martin Maria de Porres Ward, O.F.M. Conv. was an African-American Catholic priest and Franciscan friar who served as a missionary in Brazil for more than forty years. He was the first African American to join the Conventual Friars Minor. Wikipedia
Born: March 20, 1918
Died: June 22, 1999 (age 81 years), Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Martin Maria de Porres Ward, O.F.M. Conv was an African-American Catholic priest and Franciscan friar who served as a missionary in Brazil for more than ...
Martin joined the Conventuals in 1945 and became a priest in 1955. Almost immediately he volunteered for the missions in Brazil. He is described as a friar ...
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