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The story of the priest who turned the cave-dwellings of Guadix into classrooms, and meekness into a path to holiness.
Did you know that a Spanish priest spent years descending into inhabited caves to teach children who had never seen a school how to read? This is the story of Saint Pedro Poveda Castroverde (1874–1936): born in Linares, formed in Jaén and Guadix, founder of the Teresian Association, and martyr of the religious persecution of 1936 in Madrid. His story runs through the lead mines of Jaén, the mist of Covadonga, and classrooms across Spain, up to the early morning when he gave his life without hiding who he was.
In this video you'll discover:
How his vocation was born among the lead mines of Linares, in 1874.
Why he went to live among the poor in the cave-dwellings of Guadix, and what school he founded there.
How, in the silence of Covadonga, he shaped the Teresian Association by entrusting his mission to young women.
What words he spoke, without fear, in the early morning of his martyrdom, on July 28, 1936.
The life of Pedro Poveda is not only a chapter in the history of Spain: it is a testimony that education, lived as a form of charity, can transform the most forgotten people. His canonization in 2003, in the very Madrid where he had once been arrested, closed a circle that had begun in a forgotten cave on the Guadix plateau. We invite you to discover his full story.
Did you know that a Spanish priest spent years descending into inhabited caves to teach children who had never seen a school how to read? This is the story of Saint Pedro Poveda Castroverde (1874–1936): born in Linares, formed in Jaén and Guadix, founder of the Teresian Association, and martyr of the religious persecution of 1936 in Madrid. His story runs through the lead mines of Jaén, the mist of Covadonga, and classrooms across Spain, up to the early morning when he gave his life without hiding who he was.
In this video you'll discover:
How his vocation was born among the lead mines of Linares, in 1874.
Why he went to live among the poor in the cave-dwellings of Guadix, and what school he founded there.
How, in the silence of Covadonga, he shaped the Teresian Association by entrusting his mission to young women.
What words he spoke, without fear, in the early morning of his martyrdom, on July 28, 1936.
The life of Pedro Poveda is not only a chapter in the history of Spain: it is a testimony that education, lived as a form of charity, can transform the most forgotten people. His canonization in 2003, in the very Madrid where he had once been arrested, closed a circle that had begun in a forgotten cave on the Guadix plateau. We invite you to discover his full story.
