Don Trinitario Ruiz y Capdepón. Orihuela 1836-Madrid 1911

I became a father at fifteen. At my young age, I wanted to play at being an adult, and the responsibilities were coming day by day in my new chapter as a father. During my boy's first birthday, I had the opportunity, over dinner at my house, to tell my mother that I would soon marry Elizabeth. She took my hand and said, "You two are too young to take such a huge step. Life is just beginning for both of you, and you still have a very long way to go and meet many more people." Regardless of her words that night, my decision to continue with the civil wedding remained solid, and a couple of...

Los Cuadernos biográficos Pedro Poveda se proponen estudiar la figura biografiada con la amplitud y el rigor que merece la trayectoria de este sacerdote innovador, pedagogo y humanista, que abre nuevos horizontes en la historia contemporánea de la evangelización. La autora ha trazado páginas densas y sugerentes. Este primer cuaderno, Raíces linarenses, estudia la primera época de la vida de Pedro Poveda y con ella el rico contexto social en el que fraguará para siempre su personalidad.

¿Cómo se ha forjado este carácter tan sencillo, amable y, al mismo tiempo, tan fuerte y decidido, que le capacitó para cumplir la difícil misión que le tocó desarrollar? En estas páginas, llenas de vida y amenidad, el lector encontrará la explicación.

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...