A native of Ahuachapán (El Salvador), José Manuel Salazar came to the University of Navarra for the first time in 2012 to study high school program in Theology. Although he had never left his country, he assures that it was not difficult for him to adapt: "El Bidasoa becomes a home for everyone who comes here. high school Mayor Bidasoa becomes a home for everyone who arrives".

He was ordained deacon in Pamplona in 2016 and returned to El Salvador, where he was ordained priest in January 2017. There he remained for a year and a half as vicar in the parish of San Pedro Apóstol, in the town of Metapán, until the bishop of his diocese proposed that he return to the University to continue his formation in order to "be able to form" later.

"I am aware of the lack of information for young people to discover God. Sometimes they have concerns about wanting to submit their life, but they don't know where to go," he says. Hence his interest in wanting to help others: "I discovered this through my participation in the youth groups of my parish, and even so, it was hard for me.

At the beginning he was not clear about his vocation, he really liked mathematics, so he opted for degree program in Industrial Engineering. He successfully completed it and soon joined the working world, as a process analyst in a bank. "When I saw myself in my work space, I felt that it was not enough and that I was being selfish," he declares. And in late 2009, he made the decision to join seminar. "God's timing is perfect, he knew how to put me where I needed to be."

She explains that studying at the University has given her the illusion of projecting herself. Here she has discovered a taste for reading, especially the biographies of Saints St. John of the Cross, St. Faustina and St. Therese of Lisieux.

What he likes most about the priesthood is being able to help the Church and live the sacraments well, and he is grateful to the benefactors for the generosity they have given him to carry out his vocation.