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Formation of Educators

José Manuel Sánchez Caro, Rector of the Pontifical University of Salamanca, 1993.

"Salt and light that always come together in the works of Poveda as harmony between knowledge and faith. For him, those women who for the first time came close to the University, who would open to Education and other disciplines, should cultivate knowledge.

Norberto Alcover, journalist and professor at the University of Comillas, 2003.

"Pedro Poveda became part of my life in an unavoidable manner, in a way that, being myself very Ignatian, I discovered in this man from Linares, Guadix and Madrid the most accomplished benchmark of the evangelical ‘being in the world without being the world,’ understanding the mundane as dominant selfishness.

Enrique Herrera Oria, S.J.

"I met him for the first time on the occasion of the founding of F.A.E. Since then I had very close contact with Fr. Poveda. Pious, simple, humble, with a deep knowledge of Spanish education problems, great zeal and tact in taking action.

Former student of the Academy of Ávila

"For us he was not the Founder, full of business and work, of whom we would afraid to steal his precious time; rather, he was a father who was interested in our issues as if they were his; he advised us with affection, he used to go out of his way for our good and he was very generous in his consolations in our misfortune.

St. John Paul II

"St. Pedro Poveda, grasping the importance of the role of education in society, undertook an important humanitarian and educational task among the marginalized and the needy. He was a master of prayer, a teacher of the Christian life