Miracles - Saint Martin de Porres

Miracles of beatification

Elvira Moyano, was a spinster who lived in a manor house where she took care of the children. One day Joseph Dávila, who was a novice at the convent of Santo Domingo, while he was preparing a chicha, a traditional Peruvian drink made from purple corn, inadvertently dropped a vase which broke into a thousand pieces, one of these fairly large fragments entered the eye of a young woman who was nearby, making a hole.

At the screams of the woman the neighbors rushed and covered the injured eye with a cloth. Subsequently a very experienced surgeon specialized in the subject, examined the wound and ruled that the eye was lost without the possibility of recovery.

That same night the landlady brought Elvira Moyano relique of several saints to put under her pillow while she slept, but when she woke up in the morning nothing had happened. The next day, the mistress went to the convent and told the friars the incident rushed to Elvira who, shaken by the news, presented a relic of Fra Martín. When she got home she placed the image of the Friar over the damaged eye covered by the damp cloth. During the night Elvira woke up feeling that something was happening in her eye, with the sensation that the eye was regenerating itself.

When morning came, the surgeon was amazed to attest that Elvira had grown a new eye, while on the cloth that up to that moment covered her wound, there was the skin of the dead eye. The young woman gave that cloth to the Ecclesiastical judges to understand the phenomenon. The response was that Friar Martin de Porres had obtained the miracle through intercession. Miracle that was used in the cause of Beatification of Juan Martín de Porres Velázquez.

The second refers to a miracle that took place in the city of Lima where a child, two years of age, fell from a balcony, located on the second floor of the building, towards the internal courtyard of the house. The child in the tremendous impact with the ground violently banged his head to the point of releasing organic material from the brain. The doctor who intervened to examine the child formulated his diagnosis in these terms: "The child has no hope of life".
All his very religious family asked Friar Martín for help through an ardent prayer. The child, on the day following the accident, woke up miraculously healed.

This miracle like the previous one have been examined by the Medical Commission of the Congregation of Rites of Rome, which ruled that there is no natural explanation for healings and classified them as miracles. Miracles that were used in the cause of beatification of Juan Martín de Porres Velázquez.

Miracles of sanctification

Miracle of Paraguay by Dorotea Caballero Escalante (1948)
An eighty-nine year old woman was diagnosed within hours of life following a heart attack and subsequent intestinal blockage. In response to the news, the family began to organize the funeral for the following day.

His daughter who was in Buenos Aires, stricken with pain, prayed incessantly and tirelessly for the healing of her mother. He resumed his prayer even during the night, asking Friar Martín to see his mother alive when she returned to Paraguay.

Upon his return, he found his home full of happiness. Her mother had miraculously improved at the precise moment of her prayers. In the next three days Dorotea Cabballero got up perfectly healed.

The Miracle of Tenerife by Antonio Cabrera Pérez (1956)
Antonio Cabrera a boy of just four and a half years, following a serious wound on his left leg, he had the gangrene detectable by the blackened toes. After a week the situation worsened further to the point of requiring the doctors to amputate the limb.

His mother, being in possession of both a relic and an image of Saint Martín de Porres, passed both objects over the boy's leg and placed the image between his blackened fingers. Then together with the son he began to pray to Saint Martín not to amputate the limb. The prayers were accompanied by the nuns and the many visitors. Just after two days the limb regained its natural color. After twenty-three days the young Antonio returned home, after three months the recovery was complete, as evidenced by the fact that he returned to play football with his friends.