Saint Martin de Porres was not allowed to join a religious order in Peru because of his mixed racial background, but worked so diligently that the prior finally decided to ignore the law.  He is associated with racial justice and is associated with Papa Gede, the raucous Vodou lwa of the dead.
 
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