I was about 7 or 8 years old.  I was an altar boy and I accompanied Father Poveda. There were four gypsies and the four of us were altar boys. We dressed the same as Fr. Pedro: in our black cassock. We went out with our flags. I was the flag bearer, the one who bore the big flag, and everyone else carried colored pennants. We paraded along the big Street and the town center ... (egalitarian feeling and the takeover of the city made Juan Bermudez feel proud, said Flavia Paz Velázquez when she transcribed the testimony)

He had espadrilles for us. And whoever was barefoot, he only had to go to ask for espadrilles: ´Deme usté unas alpargatas.’ And a clothing store gave us clothes. We went there and we did not pay. Then, he went from one store to another and paid for us...

When I participated in “the skeleton competition” they gave me eleven pesetas. Only a Castilian and I knew all the bones, from head to the toenails ...

I tell you, that man did the incredible to educate the children ... Come on, if Fr. Pedro had not left, I would be a man. When he left I was already a teenager. Now I don’t have a choice, but then I would have been a man who made money ... come on, I have not known a person who has a heart as beautiful as his. He would die for us."