“Justo GALLEGO and his Cathedral”

Storytelling

Work realized by: Sierra Del Rey, Fermín
Villalobos Castilla, Juan A.
La Rochelle on December 2, 2010

Summary

1. Introduction 2. Presentation of Don Justo 3.1. Biography 3.2. His work 3. Repercussion worldwide 4. Critiques 5. Opinion

1. Introduction

We have chosen to do the storytelling about one personage very particular. His name is Justo Gallego Martínez, ex-monk Spanish of eighty years old, who takes all his life trying to realize a dream, the construction of a Catholic Cathedral in honour to the Virgin of Pilar. The construction is in Mejorada del Campo (Madrid, Spain), his natal town.
The motive, for which we think about “Don Justo” (as he is known informally), is because he is an example of as a person realizes with his effort and dedication, his proposed intentions. And we say effort and dedication because he has done everything only with his physical and economic means.
With the years, his history has received a world wide attention having being published in diaries as important as The Times, BBC, Discovery Channel…,and even forming part of the advertising of a brand very known about drinks, what has helped to contribute financial resources to the project.

2. Presentation of “Don Justo”
2.1. Biography
Justo Gallego Martínez was born in 1925 in Mejorada del Campo.
His faith went him at his 25 years to joining the monastery of Santa Maria de la Huerta (Soria, Spain). But in 1961, he had to leave it without priest managed to be ordained because of the tuberculosis. They were the worst moments of his life.
Don Justo

His devotion for the Pilar ´s Virgin (mistress of Spain), led to building a small Bethlehem ´s portal, from where he realized his prayers and that later would form the base of his work.
Treated of the disease, he began to construct his Cathedral in areas that he had inherited from his parents, without the support of the Catholic