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தனது 15ஆம் அகவையில் தொமினிக்கன் சபையில் சேர விறும்பியனார். முதலில் வேளையாலாகவே அனுமதிக்கப்பட்டாலும், பின்னர் பல முக்கிய பொறுப்புகளும் இவருக்கு வழங்கப்பட்டன. பின்னர் தொமினிக்கன் சபையில் சேர கடவுள் தன்னை அழைப்பதாக உணர்ந்த இவர் இச்சபையின் மூன்றாம் சபையில் சேர்ந்தார்.<ref>Biography in "The Saint Martin De Porres Prayer Book", p147-152</ref>
இவர் தனது 34ஆம் அகவையில் நோயுற்றவர்களைப் பாதுகாக்கவும் மருந்தகத்தின் கன்கானிப்பாளராகவும் நியமிக்கப்பட்டார். இப்பணியிலேயே இவர் இறக்கும் வரை இருந்தார்.<ref>Vie du Bienheureux Martin de Porrès, by Fr. Arthur M. Granger, O.P. (Dominican Press: St. Hyacinthe, 1941)</ref> அக்காலத்தில் லீமா நகரில் தொற்று நோய் பரவியதால் இவரின் பணி மிகவும் கடுமையாக இருந்தது.<ref>”Vie du Bienheureux Martin de Porrès, by Fr. Arthur M. Granger, O.P. (Dominican Press: St. Hyacinthe, 1941)</ref>
When he was 34, after he had been given the habit of a coadjutor brother, Martin was assigned to the infirmary, where he was placed in charge and would remain in service until his death at the age of fifty-nine. His superiors saw in him the virtues necessary to exercise unfailing patience in this difficult role, and he never disappointed them. It was not long before miracles were attributed to him. Saint Martin also cared for the sick outside his convent, often bringing them healing with only a simple glass of water. He begged for alms to procure necessities the convent could not provide, and Providence always supplied.<ref>Vie du Bienheureux Martin de Porrès, by Fr. Arthur M. Granger, O.P. (Dominican Press: St. Hyacinthe, 1941)</ref>One day an aged beggar, covered with ulcers and almost naked, stretched out his hand, and Martin, seeing the Divine [[Mendicant]] in him, took him to his own bed. One of his brethren reproved him. Martin replied: “Compassion, my dear Brother, is preferable to cleanliness."
When an epidemic struck Lima, there were in this single Convent of the Rosary sixty friars who were sick, many of them novices in a distant and locked section of the convent, separated from the professed. Martin is said to have passed through the locked doors to care for them, a phenomenon which was reported in the residence more than once. The professed, too, saw him suddenly beside them without the doors having been opened. Martin continued to transport the sick to the convent until the provincial superior, alarmed by the contagion threatening the religious, forbade him to continue to do so. His sister, who lived in the country, offered her house to lodge those whom the residence of the religious could not hold. One day he found on the street a poor Indian, bleeding to death from a dagger wound, and took him to his own room until he could transport him to his sister’s hospice. The superior, when he heard of this, reprimanded his subject for disobedience. He was extremely edified by his reply: “Forgive my error, and please instruct me, for I did not know that the precept of obedience took precedence over that of charity.<ref>”Vie du Bienheureux Martin de Porrès, by Fr. Arthur M. Granger, O.P. (Dominican Press: St. Hyacinthe, 1941)</ref> The superior gave him liberty thereafter to follow his inspirations in the exercise of mercy.
Martin would not use any animal as food—he was a [[Christian vegetarianism|vegetarian]].<ref>{{cite book |last= Roberts|first= Holly Harlayne|title= Vegetarian Christian Saints: Mystics, Ascetics & Monks|url= http://books.google.com/books?id=ZEuamyoZIXwC&printsec=frontcover|isbn= 9780975484401|date= 2004-09-01|accessdate= 2010-12-08|publisher= Anjeli Press|location= New York |laysummary= http://www.all-creatures.org/book/r-vegchriststs.html |page= 206|quote= he would not use any animal as food}}</ref> In normal times Martin succeeded with his alms to feed 160 poor persons every day, and distributed a remarkable sum of money every week to the [[indigent]].
To Martin the city of Lima owed a famous residence founded for orphans and abandoned children, where they were formed in piety for a creative Christian life. This lay brother had always wanted to be a missionary, but never left his native city; yet even during his lifetime he was seen elsewhere, in regions as far distant as [[Africa]], [[China]], [[Algeria]] and [[Japan]]. An African slave who had been in irons said he had known Martin when he came to relieve and console many like himself, telling them of heaven. When later the same slave saw him in Peru, he was very happy to meet him again and asked him if he had had a good voyage; only later did he learn that Saint Martin had never left Lima. A merchant from Lima was in Mexico and fell ill; he said aloud: “Oh, Brother Martin, if only you were here to care for me!” and immediately saw him enter his room. And again, this man did not know until later that he had never been in Mexico.
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