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- Director: Pablo Moreno
- Script: Pedro Delgado and Pablo Moreno
- Producer: Andrés Garrigó
- Executive producers: Josemaria Muñoz and Carlos Moreno
- Director of photography: Ruben D. Ortega
- Assembly: María Esparcia
- Sound: Roberto Alonso
- Original Music: Óscar Martín Leanizbarrutia
- Director of production: Francisco Pavón
- Art Director: Aranzazu Gaspar
- Costume Design: Patrocinio Azpeleta
- Makeup: Margarita Prieto
- Hairdresser: Nahia Martín and Ignacio Pérez
- Casting: Raúl Escudero and Sergio Morán
- Producer: Goya Producciones
- Associate Producer: Three Columns Entertainment
- First Assistant to the Director: María Esparcia
- Second Assistant to the Director: Teresa Cepa
- Photography Team: Emilio Hernández, Ismael Durán y José María Vicente
- Script: Judith Sánchez
- First Production Assistant: Carmen Rodríguez
- Production Assistants: Gonzalo Fernández, Daniel Blasco, Josemi Martín, Sofía Gea, José Luis Martínez, Chechu García, Daniel Fdez. Vidou, Rubén Ortega
- Seamstress: Dini Martín
- Art Team: Cristian Malo, Sara Pérez, Juan José Martín
- Sound Team Jofre Livina, Eduardo Lamas and Jaime Sotelo
- Video Editing Assistant: Diana Martín
- 3D Recreations: A.J. Moreno
- Press and Social Networks: Rebeca Jerez y Alfonso López
- Promotion and Marketing: Teresa Ekobo y Daniel Martínez
- Historical Advice: Mª Dolores Gómez Molleda, Laura Moreno Marrocos, Mª Asunción Ortiz, Consuelo Flecha
Servant of the Servants of God for perpetual memory
"May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world [...]. From now on, let no one make trouble for me: for I bear the marks of Jesus in my body" (Gal 6: 14,17).
The priest and martyr Pedro Poveda Castroverde, founder of the Teresian Association, received the singular grace to inspire all his spiritual life and his whole existence, even death, in the mystery of the Incarnation of the Word, culminating on the Cross. The Cross was for Pedro a constant stimulus to holiness and the key to his configuration with Christ, which he fully perfected in himself to give his life for him.
Blessed Pedro Poveda Castroverde was born in the city of Linares, Jaén, on the 3rd of December, 1874. His parents raised him in Christian education, also open to other aspects of human culture. Since his adolescence he was attracted to the priesthood. He entered the Seminary of the Diocese of Guadix, and in 1897 he received the sacred order of the presbyterate. He played many ecclesiastical duties, and since 1902 worked actively to promote a society in accordance with human and Christian customs, especially among the marginalized population living in the caves near the town of Guadix; he built schools for children and workshops for adults. Looking to Jesus Christ as "the foundation of education and basis of all moral and material progress,” he installed the Blessed Sacrament in the chapel, cave of "Our Lady of Grace.” Here he received the call to this kind of apostolate.
Appointed a Canon of the Basilica of Santa Maria of "Covadonga" in 1906, he tended to the Christian formation of pilgrims, devoting time tirelessly to prayer and apostolate. He was concerned with social education and the necessity of faith and knowledge. He published numerous articles and pamphlets in which he propagated a new profile of the lay faithful and founded Academies and Educational Centers, laying the foundation for the Teresian Association, which in 1917, won diocesan ecclesiastical approval in the city of Jaen as a Pious Union of the Faithful. While Pedro resided in Madrid, in 1924, the Pious Union was approved by an Apostolic Brief of Pope Pius XI, our predecessor in recent times. This association of the faithful, following the example of St. Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church, proposed to its members, especially through education and cultural activity, the lifestyle that Christians had in the early Church.
A prudent and fearless priest, open to dialogue, adorned with solid virtues and heroic charity, nourished the faith of many with excellent spiritual advice, promoted action and worked diligently with Catholic Action and various institutions. Teacher of education and prayer, teacher of Christian life and the relationships between faith and knowledge, he studiously worked for social justice and human solidarity.
During the religious persecution in Spain, on the morning of July 28, 1936, as he was led to martyrdom because of his faith, he uttered these words: "I am a priest of Christ"; immediately he was martyred.
In 1955 his cause of canonization was instructed in Madrid. On December 21, 1992 the Decree on martyrdom and virtues was promulgated. As the process has been diligently completed, We, on the 10th of October 1993, with a solemn rite declared Pedro Poveda Castroverde Blessed at the tomb of the Apostle Peter. On January 22, 2003 we enacted the Decree on the miracle attributed to the intercession of this same Blessed. Once we heard the favorable opinions of Cardinals and Bishops, in the Consistory held on the 7th of March of the same year, we established that the rite of canonization, given the occasion of our Pastoral Visit, take place in Madrid on the 4 of May, 2003.
So today, before a multitude of God's people and many pastors of the Church, we are pleased to proclaim the formula of canonization:
For the honor of the Blessed Trinity, the exaltation of the Catholic faith and the increase of the Christian life, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and our own, after due deliberation and frequent prayer for divine assistance, and having sought the counsel of many of our brother Bishops, we declare and define Blessed Pedro Poveda, José María Rubio, Genoveva Torres, Ángeles de la Cruz and Maria Maravillas de Jesus to be Saints and we enroll them among the Saints, decreeing that they are to be venerated as such by the whole Church. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Concluded the customary prayer, we have revered this exceptional man, and admiring his heroic industriousness and his wonderful examples of faith, we have invoked his protection in support of the whole Church. What we have decreed, we want it to be valid now and in the future, excluding anything to the contrary.
I, John Paul
Bishop of the Catholic Church
Marcelo Rosetti, Apostolic Protonotary
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Canonization Mass
Plaza de Colón, Madrid
Third Sunday of Easter, 4 May 2003
1. "You are witnesses of these things" (cf. Lk 24: 46-48), Jesus said to his Apostles in the Gospel account just proclaimed. This was a difficult and demanding mission, entrusted to men who did not dare to show themselves in public for fear of being recognized as disciples of the Nazarene. Nevertheless, the first reading presented to us Peter who, once he received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, has the courage to proclaim the Resurrection of Jesus to the people and urge them to repent and convert.
Since then the Church, with the power of the Holy Spirit, continues to announce this extraordinary news to all people of all times. And the Successor of Peter, a pilgrim on Spanish soil, repeats to you: Spain, following a past of courageous evangelization, continue today to be witnesses of the risen Christ!
2. I greet with affection all the people of God who have come from the different regions of the Country and have gathered here to participate in this solemn celebration. I offer a respectful greeting to Their Majesties the King and Queen of Spain and to the Royal Family. I cordially thank Cardinal Antonio María Rouco Varela, Archbishop of Madrid, for his kind words. I greet the Spanish Cardinals and Bishops, priests and consecrated persons; I also greet with affection the members of the Institutes associated with the new Saints.
I am particularly grateful for the presence here of the President of the Government and the Presidents of the Autonomous Communities and of the civil authorities who have offered their precious collaboration so that the various events of this Visit could be accomplished.
3. The new Saints are presented to us today as true disciples of the Lord and witnesses of his Resurrection.
St. Peter 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 and of the relationship between faith and knowledge, convinced that Christians must bring essential values and commitment to building a world that is more just and mutually supportive. His life ended with the crown of martyrdom.
St. José María Rubio lived his priesthood first as a diocesan priest and then as a Jesuit, giving himself totally to the apostolate of the Word and of the Sacraments, dedicating long hours to the confessional and directing numerous spiritual retreats in which he formed many Christians who would later die as martyrs in the religious persecution in Spain. "Do what God wants and want what God does!" was his motto.
4. St. Genoveva Torres was an instrument of God's tender love for lonely people in need of love, comfort and physical and spiritual care. The characteristic note that fuelled her spirituality was adoration of the Eucharist for the expiation of sins, which formed the basis of an apostolate full of humility and simplicity, of self-denial and charity.
Love and sensitivity to the poor likewise prompted St Angela of the Cross to found her "Company of the Cross" for the most deprived with a charitable and social dimension that made an enormous impact on the Church and society of Seville in her day. Her distinctive traits were naturalness and simplicity, seeking holiness with a spirit of mortification and at the service of God in her brothers and sisters.
St. Maravillas de Jesús was motivated by a heroic faith that shaped her response to an austere vocation, in which she made God the center of her life. Having overcome the painful circumstances of the Spanish Civil War, she established new foundations for the Order of Carmel, imbued with the characteristic spirit of the Teresian reform. Her life of contemplation and monastic enclosure did not prevent her from responding to the needs of the persons she dealt with and promoting social and charitable works around her.
5. The new Saints have very concrete faces and their history is well known. What is their message? Their works, which we admire and for which we thank God, are not due to their own efforts nor to human wisdom but to the mysterious action of the Holy Spirit who inspired in them an unshakeable adherence to the risen and crucified Christ and the decision to imitate him. Dear Catholic faithful of Spain: let yourselves be influenced by these marvelous examples!
In giving thanks to the Lord for the many gifts he has poured out upon Spain, I invite you to pray with me that new saints continue to flourish in this land. Other fruits of holiness will be produced if the ecclesial communities remain faithful to the Gospel which, in accordance with a venerable tradition, has been preached since the earliest times of Christianity and has been preserved down the ages.
New fruits of holiness will be produced if the family remains united as a true shrine of love and life. "Christian and Catholic faith constitute the identity of the Spanish people", I said on the occasion of my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela (Address at Santiago, 9 November 1982).
To know and to deepen a people's past means to strengthen and enrich their very identity. Do not abandon your Christian roots! Only in this way will you be able to bring the cultural riches of your history to the world and to Europe.
6. "Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures" (Lk 24: 45). The risen Christ enlightens the Apostles so that their proclamation can be understood and transmitted intact to all the generations, so that man, in hearing may believe, in believing, hope, and in hoping, love (cf. St Augustine, De Catechizandis Rudibus, 4, 8). In proclaiming the risen Jesus Christ, the Church desires to announce a way of hope to all men and women, and to accompany them to the encounter with Christ.
In celebrating this Mass, I invoke upon you all the great gift of fidelity to your Christian commitments. May God the Father grant it to you through the intercession of the Most Holy Virgin, who is venerated in Spain under many titles, and of the Saints.