Santa Misa de Canonización
Plaza de Colón, Madrid
Domingo 4 de mayo de 2003
Siervo de los Siervos de Dios para perpetua memoria
“En cuanto a mí, Dios me libre de gloriarme sino en la cruz de nuestro Señor Jesucristo, por quien el mundo está crucificado para mí y yo para el mundo […]. En adelante, que nadie me venga con molestias; porque yo llevo en mi cuerpo las marcas de Jesús” (Gal 6, 14´17).
Saint Pedro Poveda Castroverde, humanist and educator, recognized as such by UNESCO on the centenary of his birth, lived the concerns created by the deep crisis of values and lifestyles of the beginning of the XX century. He was one of a small Christian minority concerned with formulating the basic principles of an anthropology that would liberate people from the rejection of transcendence.
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St. Pedro José Luis Francisco Javier Poveda Castroverde was born on 3 December 1874 in Linares, Spain, to a solidly Christian family.