Testimonies

  • Saints Next Door

    by Mateo Pou

    In October 2025, Mateo Pou took part in the meeting «Saints next door – Santi della porta accanto: Giorgio Frassati, Carlo Acutis and Marcos…

  • Letter to Marcos

    Letter to Marcos

    by Daiki Nishikawa

    Memories of MarcosMarcos took me to lunch with a university friend of his, after the party. We played football in the street and did…

  • A young man in love with Christ

    A young man in love with Christ

    by Fr Carlos Cano

    I met Marcos while he was praying, taking part in the Eucharist and going to confession, some five years before he entered the seminary…

  • A man of God has died

    A man of God has died

    by Jaume Vives

    I met Marcos Pou just a few months ago. It was in a village in Catalonia – La Gleva – where I had gone…

  • The Inheritance of the Saints

    The Inheritance of the Saints

    by Fr Mauro Giuseppe Lepori, Abbot General of the Cistercian Order

    Marcos was at the Spiritual Exercises, the only one who was not a priest, and I had been greatly struck by his attentive and…

  • «I will be there waiting for you»

    «I will be there waiting for you»

    by Jesús Úbeda

    Many are the thoughts and feelings that have come and gone since I was told, at ten o’clock this morning, that my friend Marcos…

  • TAM PATER NEMO (No one ever was, nor could be, so good a Father)

    TAM PATER NEMO (No one ever was, nor could be, so good a Father)

    by Nico Pou Gallo, Marcos's brother

    A letter to friends, family and acquaintances after Marcos’s death.

  • A finger pointing towards Heaven

    A finger pointing towards Heaven

    by Rafa Pou, Marcos's cousin

    A few poor, clumsy, very limited words about my cousin Marcos. «Yes, Rafa, the great thing about the Lord is that he can strike…

  • Suffering, God’s megaphone

    Suffering, God’s megaphone

    by María Pou, Marcos's cousin

    I wanted to share what has been going round inside me these days, now that I am beginning to take in the blow —…

  • Everything has been given to us freely

    Everything has been given to us freely

    by Javier García Arevalillo

    Words of thanks to Marcos in the preface to a book.

  • He Has Never Left Me Since

    He Has Never Left Me Since

    by Inés Agustí

    He welcomed everything that made up my life.With this sentence I can sum up who Marcos was for me. It moved me deeply.One day…