The famous Catholic singer-songwriter Martín Valverde and his family said goodbye to their son Pablo, who died on Saturday, June 22, after suffering from leukemia, a type of blood cancer, during the past year.
“Yesterday we celebrated the Mass for Pablito’s body yesterday with friends present and with many friends who wanted to be present,” wrote Valverde in his social networks the 24th of June.
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Yesterday we celebrated Pablito’s present body mass with friends present and with many friends who wanted to be present.
It was an Easter celebration where clearly Hope made us encompass the pain that is inevitable. We thanked the Father for Life, and in honor… pic.twitter.com/u8hSoUgxuD— MARTIN VALVERDE (@martinvalverde) June 24, 2024
“It was an Easter celebration where clearly Hope made us encompass the pain that is inevitable. We thanked the Father for Life, and in honor and memory of those who have already departed we decided to LIVE,” he added.
“Once again and as necessary on behalf of my entire family, heartfelt thanks, peace and good to all,” concluded Martín Valverde.
The famous singer-songwriter of songs like No one love’s you like me He also shared that they were accompanied at Mass by several “pastors with the smell of sheep,” such as “Father Juan Solana from Encounter Magdala, Father Ricardo López Díaz from the Community of Salto,” among others.
We were blessed to be able to have Shepherds with the smell of Sheep at The Celebration for Pablo yesterday. Father Juan Solana from Encounter Magdala, Father Father Ricardo López Díaz from the Salto Community. As a wonderful and generous host to Father Javier de Nuestra Señora de… pic.twitter.com/EdV03vsaS1
— MARTIN VALVERDE (@martinvalverde) June 24, 2024
Martín Valverde offers a message of hope in the face of death
In another publication, Martín Valverde highlighted that “it is always good news that some medicine that God allowed you to share and give made into music, you can now self-prescribe.”
“We are neither the first, nor the last, nor the only ones who go through this, but with joyful hope we share this thought for those who are going through the loss of a being they love, I ask that it be medicine for their souls, as I It is for ours,” he added.
Walter Sanchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.