During the Sunday Eucharist on 21 January, the anti-Catholic Archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal José Cobo, baptised Javier, 44, in the Nuestra Señora Flor del Carmelo parish in the populous El Pilar district of Madrid, writes ArchiMadrid.org.
The son of a German mother of Jewish background and a father from Malaga, Spain, who was only on paper a Catholic, Javier grew up in a secular environment and with prejudices against the Church.
He met his wife Cristina in 2010. At Cristina's request, they got married three years later in the Church, using the rite for a marriage between a Catholic and a non-Catholic, but Cristina was not a practicing Catholic. This changed when Gonzalo, the eldest of their three children, turned 6.
Cristina didn't want him to grow up as a pagan, so she decided to take Gonzalo to the Sunday Eucharist regularly. Javier joined her to look after their second son, César, who was difficult to control.
One day he entered the ugly Blessed Sacrament chapel of the parish. He …More