Autobiography of a missionary who had to leave the priesthood to find a woman with whom to share his life
It goes on sale next Monday, December 16th. Memoirs of a Missionary in Love. Autobiography by José Antonio Fernández Martínez.
This book bears witness to an unyielding missionary vocation, to which he dedicated a firm and incontrovertible will to faithfully support the call and respond to it with faith, firmness, loyalty, and dedication.
Memoirs of a Missionary in Love It is a book of love, hate, action, adventures in the Amazon rainforest, and—so often painful and arduous—inner journey, a dialectical struggle against oneself and the world. A well-researched and realistic romantic novel, as true and real as life itself, though, as was once the custom in parish newsletters censoring shows and films, without any pornography, unnecessary explicitness, or formal flaws. They weren't needed, they aren't needed. There is no sensationalism here. As a pure, clean, and direct testimony of life, José Antonio Fernández Martínez's book is already selling exceptionally well.
The book launch will take place next Monday, December 16th, at 8:00 PM h in the Cajamurcia Cultural Center in CiezaIt will involve, Fernando Fernández (editor), Rosa Campos (writer), Bartholomew Marks (teacher) and José Antonio Fernández Martínez (author).
JOSÉ ANTONIO FERNÁNDEZ MARTÍNEZ
Molina de Segura, 1937
A graduate in Classical Philology, he taught at the secondary schools of Caravaca de la Cruz and Mula. Ordained a priest in 1961, he carried out his pastoral work in Cehegín and Archivel, the main parish of Santiago in Jumilla, the parish of San Joaquín in Cieza, and the parish of Santiago Apóstol in Hoya del Campo de Abarán. He was Episcopal Vicar for the Cieza-Yecla area in the Diocese of Cartagena, Rector of the Seminary, and a teacher at the Merced School in Murcia. He served as Episcopal Vicar for Diocesan Pastoral Care in Azogues, Cañar Province, and also as a missionary in Guayas Province, both in the Republic of Ecuador. In Ecuador, he published a handwritten book of figured music entitled Ecuador sings to the Lord.
In 1985 he married in Cieza, the town where he lives. In 1999, he was a monitor at the "Molino de Teodoro" Municipal Museum. Now retired, he has volunteered with the Red Cross and has been a commentator on several local radio stations. He has also worked as a reader at the municipal library on the program... I lend you my eyes.
