As a good Uruguayan, Nicolás Gastaldi loves soccer and he goes to submission whenever he can. It is not unusual to see him playing in Estella on Saturday afternoons, where he shares the field with 14-year-olds, as part of the pastoral work he does in this town, whether it is cold, hot or rainy.

A seminarian of the Diocese of Minas (Uruguay), he is 31 years old and is student of the high school program in Theology of the University of Navarra. This is his fifth year as a resident of the International Ecclesiastical high school Bidasoa, where he says he feels very grateful: "It is like living the universal Church in one house".

She says that hers is a "late vocation", as she discovered it when she had already finished her university studies at programs of study . She is graduate in International Business from the Catholic University of Uruguay. In 2007, at the insistence of her older brother, she went on pilgrimage to the shrine in Salta, Argentina. She relates that it was there that she discovered the Virgin. "I realized that I wanted her to always be in my life. And little by little she took me by the hand. I ordered my life and began to have spiritual direction. What she ended up giving me was that I discovered that Jesus is alive in the Eucharist. I rediscovered everything I had learned doctrinally as a child. It was then that it went from my head to my heart. In two months I changed family life for priestly life".

He is the seventh of eight siblings in a Catholic family. He says his parents were very excited when he told them the path he wanted to follow. "I think my mother sensed something," he says. However, some of his siblings, although they were very happy, were not left without a big surprise: "I took advantage of a barbecue to tell my brother that I would like to become a priest. Minutes before that, he went ahead and asked me if I wanted to meet a friend of his. My answer left him speechless. However, the day I was leaving, he left me a letter in which he conveyed his 'joy at having found this greatness'."

On February 16 he will be ordained a deacon in Pamplona, where some of his relatives will be coming from Uruguay. He will be ordained there in a few months, in the diocese of Minas. The phrase he has chosen as insignia for this is "Que nadie falte en el Cielo", from the Holy Curé of Ars, to whom he is a faithful devotee. Because, as he explains, "the important thing in life is to be close to God".