Pedro Antonio Martínez is 28 years old and is currently in his fifth year of high school program in Theology at the University of Navarra. He arrived in Spain on August 24, 2015. He still remembers his landing in Madrid, with great enthusiasm but with the nostalgia of having left his home and family behind. He came with two other compatriots and there they were welcomed by two companions from seminar International Bidasoa, where they have resided these years of training.

As the saying goes, Pedro Antonio Martínez was a "cook before he was a friar". In this case, he was a historian before he was a seminarian. He studied licentiate degree in History with orientation in Archaeology at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, in Managua. It was during the last year of degree program when he decided to enter the seminar. "My desire was to be a priest after the heart of Christ," he explains. He had a girlfriend at the time and was thinking of setting up a small business when he finished his programs of study.

Pedro Antonio says that since he was a child he had the desire to be a priest: "I used to play at celebrating the Eucharist, with cookies and Coca-Cola. And I used to baptize my cousins' dolls," he recalls with a laugh. "I even did a vocational meeting at seminar, recommended by my parish priest. When I came back, I brought it up at home, but they told me to take out a lay degree program first. So I complied. I put the idea aside, but I continued to help in the parish, at first as an altar boy and when I was older in other tasks such as the strategy for the elaboration of the diocesan plan," he explains. Once graduate and the decision was made, he went to seminar. It was only three days after his father's death.

He assures that in the whole process of discernment, what has helped him the most has been "to clarify his doubts on his knees in front of the tabernacle". That, and his special devotion to the Virgin of Candelaria, patroness of his town: "There is nothing like the arms of a mother to unburden oneself".

He is very grateful for the training received during these five years to his professors and formators: "The academic and the human. When I am ordained I plan to serve with joy and fulfill the tasks entrusted to me by the bishop of my diocese, but above all to live well all that I have learned here". He is also very grateful to the benefactors financial aid , both for their prayers and for their economic financial aid : "Thanks to them my diocese is growing in the preparation of the clergy and in being able to modernize some things to give a better service to the people of God".