January 23, 2024 / 08:14 AM
Last Sunday the Archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal José Cobo, baptized Javier, of Jewish origin, at the age of 44, after a process of gradual discernment and conversion that gained strength with the preparation to receive the First Communion of his eldest son. Gonzalo.
Son of a German Jewish woman and a Spanish Catholic, Javier had grown up in an environment not very inclined to spirituality, in which a certain distrust of everything Catholic also predominated.
In 2010 he met his wife, Cristina, and they married according to the Catholic rite provided for mixed marriages. There, myths about priests began to be dispelled. Despite this, his wife’s religious practice was not very frequent until the time came to begin preparing for the First Communion of the eldest of her three children.