"I would like to help my people to be closer to Christ," says Nino Joseph Nesayyan Agatha, student of the School of Theologywith the enthusiasm of one who knows he is called by God. He was born 28 years ago in a town in southern India, in the diocese of Neyyattinkara. He grew up there and received his formation at the seminar of St. Francis Xavier in Peyad, until the bishop of his diocese encouraged him to come and study at the University of Navarra, where he will finish his programs of study in June.

Nino is the eldest of three brothers. And although he was born into a Catholic family, where they even pray the Rosary every day before going to bed, the advertisement of his vocation to the priesthood came as a cold shower: "My father told me that the priesthood was not for us, but for great people". He finally gave his consent for Nino to enter the local seminar .

Most of his childhood friends, with whom he shared desk and playtime, are Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and Catholics. The latter were in the minority. Only 2.3% of India's population is Catholic.

He has been living for the past four years at seminar International Bidasoa, in Pamplona, where he says he has especially learned to deal with two people in his spiritual life, Our Lady of Fatima and St. Josemaría, and where he says he has spent the most important period of his life. "I arrived here without knowing how to pronounce a single word at Spanish," he says, to the amazement of anyone who might listen to him. He is not lacking in cheerfulness or self-confidence. And that has also played in his favor.

He thanks "with all his heart" his training at the University of Navarra to the benefactors, formators and professors of the School of Theology, and "to those who have contributed in silence without expecting anything in return". Next May he will conclude his programs of study and return to India. He will be able to play cricket again, as he did as a child, will be ordained a priest and will fulfill his dream of celebrating Mass every day: "It is the best prayer to ask for the salvation of the whole world and the conversion of many souls. The love of Christ extends to Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and even to non-believers".