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Pedro Poveda Castroverde
Spanish priest, educator, and martyr
Pedro Poveda (born Pedro José Luis Francisco Javier Poveda Castroverde; 3 December – 28 July ) was a Spanish Catholic priest, humanitarian, and educator.
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He was the founder of the Teresian Association. His humanitarian-educational activity lasted for over 30 years, until his execution by persecutors of the Christian faith in Poveda was beatified in and canonized in ; his feast day is 28 July.
Life
Youth and scholarship
Pedro Poveda was born on 3 December at Linares, Spain, into the solidly Christian family of José Poveda Montes and María Linarejos Castroverde Moreno. Deciding to become a priest at a young age, he entered the seminary in Jaén in , and then transferred to the seminary of Guadix, Granada, where he had been offered a scholarship by the bishop.[1] Ordained on 17 April at the age of twenty-three, he taught at the seminary, continued his studies, and received his licentiate in theology