Events that have nothing to do with Blessed Martin de Porres are giving him new importance. It is clear that the old relation of White and Colored cannot continue; no one knows what changes there may be, but at least there will be changes. Catholics above all should help to shape them, and of all Catholics, the children should have their minds and emotions clarified and made straight. Martin de Porres was a Negro, he is beatified, and no white child will read this story of him without feeling that in comparison with Martin's moral and spiritual superiority his own lighter complexion is a mere irrelevance.

Taken from the inside front flap.

Mary Fabyan Windeatt was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. In 1927 she arrived in the United States and settled in San Diego, California, later obtaining an AB degree from San Diego State College. In 1934 she came to New York City and began to write for the Catholic Press. Since that time her short stories, poetry and articles have appeared in 33 publications, and a score of radio plays have been produced.

Besides being an honor graduate of the Toronto Conservatory of Music and the possessor of an MA degree from Columbia University, Miss Windeatt is the author of Saints in the Sky, a children's biography of St. Catherine of Siena, Sing Joyfully!, a book of verse, and a pamphlet life of St. Dominic.

Lad of Lima is the result of considerable research made in the summer of 1941 went to Peru as a member of The Sign Seminar to South America.

Taken from the back cover.