Peru
Notable Catholic Saints
St. Rose of Lima (first saint of the Americas, patron of Latin America), St. Martin de Porres (first Black saint of the Americas), St. John Macias OP, St. Toribio of Mogrovejo (Archbishop of Lima, reformer)
Americas
Peru
Peru gave the world St. Rose of Lima — the first person born in the Americas to be canonized — and its Catholic identity runs from the Spanish colonial baroque splendor of Cusco and Lima to the deeply indigenous Andean Christianity of the highlands, a synthesis unlike anywhere else on earth.
Peru
Notable FEAST DAYs
Feast of St. Rose of Lima (Aug 30) — national holiday and major civic celebration; Feast of El Señor de los Milagros — Lord of Miracles procession in October, the largest Catholic procession in the world, drawing millions
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