St. Martin de Porres

Martin de Porres was a Dominican lay brother whose hidden religious life overflowed in every direction into practical mercy. The humiliations attached to his mixed parentage are not ignored, because they help explain the humility, prayer, and penance by which those wounds were turned into readiness to serve. He is remembered through lowly convent tasks, care for the sick and poor, tenderness toward slaves and the abandoned, and a practical intelligence that made works of mercy effective rather than merely kind in intention.

Supernatural gifts are admitted, but they are not the center. The center is hard service: Martin feeds, heals, organizes, cleans, begs, advises, and keeps loving those whom others might easily pass by.