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.
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.
Pablo Moreno, film director, "... in the end he found me," 2016.
When I accepted making the film on Poveda, I had a different idea about who Pedro Poveda was. I knew he was a complex, multidimensional character with many possibilities; but as I got deeper into the story and as I discovered the character, I realized that I was quite short in all my ideas.
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Juan Bermúdez Heredia (Juanico), a child and cave-dweller at the time Pedro Poveda was in Guadix. Testimony collected in 1982 when he was 80.
"The one in the picture in front of his legs, (referring to this photo) that's me.