Fr. Martin de Porres John Walsh, OP
Fr. Martin Walsh is a friar of the Western Dominican Province and the Director of the Dominican Mission Foundation.  All of the financial proceeds of his itinerant preaching and teaching go to support the Dominican Missions in Mexico, Kenya, Guatemala, Lithuania, and the Philippines.

Even before entering the Dominican Order, Fr. Martin was involved in social work in the Third World, as one of the founders of Amigos Anonymous.  Since ordination in 1969, he has been assigned to St. Dominic Priory in San Francisco, serving a parochial vicar and later, eight years as pastor during the time of the church restoration project.  He enjoyed eight years at the Dominican Mission in Mexicali, Mexico, and served as Novice Master for the Western Province for six years.  Coincidental with his ministries, he has worked at Westside Mental Health Center at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco, served on the Boards of Directors of the San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society and the Dominican Biblical School of Jerusalem (Ecole Biblique).  He consulted for the Mexican Government on the restoration of the Dominican Missions of Baja California and is a contributing editor of the African American Heritage Bible.

Fr. Martin was recently transferred from Mexicali, Mexico to St. Dominic's Priory in San Francisco. In addition to being Director of the Mission Foundation he will also be the Director of the St. Jude Shrine. The St. Jude Shrine is located within St. Dominic Church in San Francisco. Pilgrims come from all parts of Western United States to visit the shrine and invoke the intercession of St. Jude. The purpose of the St. Jude apostolate is to further devotion to St. Jude Thaddeus, "Patron of Difficult Cases" and to foster the education of worthy students for the Dominican priesthood and brotherhood.
Updated: 5-25-07

• Dominican Mission Foundation, Director

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